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    Christran or whatsoever ,, they will house him , prepare him extraordu nary fare arid loot to his mule , without taking of one asper . But these precise Mahometans wiUneither eat nor drink with a Christian ; only minister to his wants ; and when he hath done , break the earthen dishes wherein he was fed as defiled . " Sandys' Travels , 7 th Ed . p , 166 , ., ,

    ....-This may-be called an example of cc orthodoxy and charity united" among . Mahometans . Among Christians , I fear , it hag been too easy to observe them sadly " disjoined .- An instance as remarkable as any that occurs to me is to be found in * a Cede of tews made in the dominion of Newharen at its first settleriient /' in 163 7- These legislators were puritans , driven by

    persecution from the old world * , wtib no sooner found a refuge in the new than they claimed in their turn a fight to persecute . They thus unhappily furnished a" church and king" persecutor with the best apology he could desire-for the a ^ ct of uniformity and the severities by which it was enforced . These legislators , of

    * The parts ! spealr of are ^ he most renown ed countries and kingdoms , once the sears of most glorious ' and triumphant empires , the theatres of valour and heroicai actions , the soils , enriched with all earthly felicities ; the places where nature hath produced her wronderful works , where arts' and sciences have been invented and perfected , where wisdom , virtue , poiicy and civility have been planted , have flourished ; and lastly where God himself did place his own commonwealth , gave laws and oracles , inspired his prophets , sent angels to converse with men ; above aH , where the Son of God descended to become man ; where he honoured the earth with

    his beautiful steps ^ wrought the work of our redemption , triumphed over death , and ascended into glory . Which countries , once so glorious and famous for their Happy estate , are now , through vice an & ingratitude , become the most deplored spectacles of extreme misery ; the wild beasts of mankind having broken in upon them , and rooted out all civility , and the pride > of a stem and barbarous tyrant possessing ' the thrones of ancient and just dominion . —Those rich lands at this present

    reinain waste and overgrown with bushes , receptacles of wild beasts , of thieves and murderers , large territories dispeopled or thinly inhabited , good cities made des © - late , sumptuous buildings become ruins , no light of learning permitted , nor virtue cherished ; violence and rapine insulting over all 3 and leaving 110 security save to an abject mind and unlooked on poverty . Which calamities of their ' s , so great and deserved , are to the rest of the world as threatening instructions . " Sandys' Dedication tothe Prince , afterwards King Charles I .

    * The peopling of this and two of the neighbouring colonies was owing chiefly to the puritan ministers , who being silenced at home , repaired to New England that they might enjoy liberty of conscience ; and drew after them vast numbers of their friends and favourers . " Gordon ' s Amer . Rev . ( 1 . 35 . ) See also Neal ' s Kew England , Ch . zd , passim . ( Ed . 2 . 1 . 50 ) . Miltpn in his Treatise " Of Reformation in Engiai : d , written to a Friend" in 1641 , about 20 years after the first emigration to New England , says , « What number ? of faithful and free-born Englishmen and

    good Christians have been constrained to forsake their dearest home , their friends and kindred , whom nothing but the wide ocean and the savage desarts £ > f'AmeriSa could hide and shelter from the fury of the bishops ? O Sir , if we could but see the shape of our dear mother England , as poets are wont to give a personal form to what they please , how would she appear , think ye , but in a mourning weed , with ashes upon her head and tears abundantly flowing from her eyes to behold so many of her children exposed at once and thrust from thii . gs of dearest necessity , " ( Mil * ton ' s Prose Work ^ FoJ . 160 . 8 . i . a 66 . J

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    4 ? O Orthodoxy and Charii ^ ^ illustrated By Examples *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1807, page 480, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2384/page/28/