 | Noah Webster - Geography - 1806 - 236 pages
...Before the general court at Bofton in May, 1634, Mr. Cotton in a iermon maintained that a magiftrate ought not to be turned into the condition of a private man j and the queftion afterwards coming before the court, was prudently poftponed. In May 1636, a law... | |
 | Noah Webster - Geography - 1809 - 232 pages
...Before the general court atBofton in May, 1634, Mr. Cotton in a fermon, maintained that a magiftrate ought not to be turned into the condition of a private man ; and ti.c queflion afterwards coming before the court, was prudently poftponed. In May, 1636, a law paffcd... | |
 | John Winthrop - Massachusetts - 1825 - 456 pages
...remove, &c. [Large blank.] 1 4.] At the general court, Mr. Cotton preached, and delivered this doctrine, that a magistrate ought not to be turned into the condition of a private man without just cause, and to be publickly convict, no more than the magistrates may not turn a private... | |
 | John Winthrop - 1825 - 456 pages
...remove, &c. [Large blank.] 14.] At the general court, Mr. Cotton preached, and delivered this doctrine, that a magistrate ought not to be turned into the condition of a private man without just cause, and to be publickly convict, no more than the mngistrates may not turn a private... | |
 | Caleb Hopkins Snow - Boston (Mass.) - 1828 - 484 pages
...fell to his lot to preach the Election sermon, and he improved the occasion to deliver this doctrine, that a magistrate ought not to be turned into the condition of a private man, without just cause and on publick conviction,' any more than a magistrate may turn a private man out... | |
 | Noah Webster - United States - 1832 - 378 pages
...that body was divided into two houses. 341. Attempts in Massachusetts to create Magistrates for Life. It was an opinion among our pious ancestors that great...in office for life, as a standing council, and two wero chosen for the purpose. But in May 1C39, one of the ciders giving hie opinion that the governor... | |
 | Criticism - 1850 - 676 pages
...his arrival, and fearing that his friend Winthrop might not be reelected, he delivered the doctrine that a magistrate ought not to be turned into the condition of a private man without just cause and a public conviction after trial, and immediately the assembled electors chose... | |
 | Jeremy Belknap - America - 1846 - 336 pages
...preached by Mr. Cotton, who, with evident allusion to the jealousy referred to, " delivered the doctrine that a magistrate ought not to be turned into the condition of a private man without just cause, no more than the magistrate may not turn a private man out of his freehold, (fee.,... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - United States - 1849 - 576 pages
...Court of Massachusetts. Cotton, the new minister of Boston, delivered on that occasion this doctrine, that a magistrate ought' not to be turned into the condition of a private man without just cause, and a public trial on specific charges, " no more than the- magistrates may not... | |
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Cotton preached, and delivered this doctrine, that a magistrate ought not to be turned into the condition of a private man without just cause, and to be publicly convict, no more than the magistrates may not turn a private man out of his freehold, etc.,... 
