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promote oolonization , refused to grant them fall ecclesiastical liberty , but promised to " connive at their practices . " They were obliged to be satisfied with this , and haying obtained a grant of land from the Plymouth Company , they embarked for America in the year 1620 . The parting address to them of their pastor , John Robinson , must be inserted here .
" Brethren , " said he , " we are now quickly to part from one another , and whether 1 may ever live to see your faces on earth any more , the God of heaven only knows ; but whether the Lord has appointed that or no , I charge you before God and his blessed angels , that you follow me no farther than you have seen me follow the Lord Jesus Christ . " If God reveal any thing to you , by any other instrument of his , be
as ready to receive it as ever you were to receive any truth b y my ministry ; for i am verily persuaded , I am very confident , the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word . For my part I cannot sufficiently bewail the condition of the reformed churches who are come to a period in religion , and will go at present no farther than the instruments of their Reformation . The Lutherans cannot be drawn
to go beyond what Luther saw ; whatever part of his will our good God has revealed to Calvin , they will rather die than embrace it ; and the Calvinists you see , stick fast where they were left by that great man of God , who yet saw not all things . < c This is a misery much to be lamented ; for though they were burn * ing and shining li g hts in their times , yet they penetrated not into the whole counsel of God ; but , were they now living , would be as willing
to embrace farther light , as that which they first received . I beseech you remember it , ' tis an article of your church covenant , that you be ready to receive whatever truth shall be made known to you frcm the written word of God . Remember that , arid every other article of your sacred covenant . But I must therewithal exhort you to take heed what you receive as truth * Examine it , consider it , and compare it with other scriptures of truth before you receive it ; for ' tis not possible the Christian world should come so lately out of antichristian darkness ,
and that perfection of knowledge should break forth at once . " VoL I . p . 189 . The emigrants , consisting of 120 persons , were taken , either by the mistake or treachery of their captain , to Cape Cod , a region much further north than they intended , and foeyond the precincts of their grant , or the possessions of the Plymouth Company . But the season was too late for further navigation ;
they , therefore , purchased the land of the natives , and founded New Plymouth . In absence of a more formal title they drew up a deed recognising the authority of the Crown , and tneir determination to enact and obey all juet and necessary laws * They never obtained a patent , though they applied for one , and existed as a self-dependent state , till they were merged in the province of Massachusetts . They had to endure extreme hardships , and more than one-half perished in the ensuing winter . But these were not men to sink under difficulties ; their
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1836, page 307, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2657/page/43/
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