The fanatics at Newhaven, in like manner with thofe of Hertford, voted themselves to be a Dominion independent, and chofe Eaton for their Governor, and Davenport for their Minister. The Governor and a Committee had the power of making laws for the State, and the Minifter, affifted by Deacons and Elders, was to rule the Church. The following is a fpecimen of the tenets established by Davenport in the latter :---That Chrift has conveyed all Power to his people both in Church and State; which Power they are to exercise until Chrift shall return on Earth, to reign 1000 years over his militant Saints :---that all other Kings, befides Chrift and his elected People, are peftilent ufurpers and enemies to God and Man:---that all Vicars, Rectors, Deans, Priests, and Bishops, are of the Devil; are Wolves, petty Popes, and antichriftian Tyrants :---that Pastors and Teachers of particular Congregations are

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of Christ, and must be chofen by his people; i. e. the elect and chofen from the foundation of the world; or else their entrance and miniftry are unlawful:--that all things of human invention in the worship of God, fuch as are in the Mafsbook and Common-Prayer, are unfavory in the fight of God :---that ecclesiastical cenfures ought to be exercifed by the Members of particular Congregations among themselves :----that the People should not fuffer this fupreme power to be wrefted out of their hands, until Chrift fhall begin his reign :---that all good people ought to pray always that God would raze the old Papal foundation of epifcopal government, together with the filthy ceremonies of that antichriftian Church ---that every particular who neglects this duty, may juftly fear that curfe pronounced against Meroz,— Judg. v. 23, Curse ye Meroz; because they came not to help the Lord against the

mighty enemies of God and his Church :--that every particular. Congregation is an abfolute Church; the members of it are to be all Saints; thofe must enter into covenant among themselves, and without fuch a covenant there can be no Church:--that it is an heinous fin to be present when prayers are read out of a book by a Vicar or Bishop:---that fubjects promise obedience to obtain help from the Magistrates, and are discharged from their promise when the Magiftrates fail in their duty-that, without liberty from the Prince or Magiftrate, the People may reform the Church and State, and must not wait for the Magiftrates :---&c. &c. --This Dominion, this tyrant of tyrants, adopted the Bible for its code of civil laws, till others fhould be made more fuitable to its circumftances. The provifion was politic. The lawgivers foon discovered that the precepts in the Old and New Teftaments were infufficient to

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fupport them in their arbitrary and bloody undertakings: they, therefore, gave themselves up to their own inventions in making others, wherein, in fome inftances, they betrayed fuch an extreme degree of wanton cruelty and oppression, that even the rigid fanatics of Bofton, and the mad zealots of Hertford, put to the blush, chriftened them the Blue Laws; and the former held a day of thanksgiving, becaufe God, in his good providence, had ftationed Eaton and Davenport fo far from them.

The religous fyftem established by Peters at Saybrook was well calculated to please the moderate Puritans and zealots of all denominations; but the fanatics of the Maffachufets-Bay, who hated every part of the Common-Prayer-book worse than the Council of Trent and the papal power exercised over heretics, were alarmed at the conduct of the half-reformed schismatics in that colony; and, thinking

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that their dear Salem might be endangered by fuch impure worshipers, consented, in the year 1636, to give Mr. Hooker and his affociates liberty to emigrate to Hertford, notwithstanding the preceding year they had refufed fuch liberty, seeing then no reason for Hooker's feizing the territory of other people. But when the New-England Vine was fuppofed to be threatened by the Bible, Lord's-Prayer, and Ten Commandments, the pious people of Maffachufets-Bay permitted Hooker, in 1636, to remove into and govern Connecticut by their authority, and to impede and break up the worship of the Peterites in Saybrook. Hooker was faithful to his truft, excepting that, when he got to Hertford, he rejected the authority of his employers in the Maffachufets-Bay, set up a new dominion, and perfecuted the Peterites under his own banner, though he called it the banner of Jefus.-But for his and Davenport's tyrannical conduct,

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