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Handout #185 |
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Farewell to England |
| The position of the Massachusetts colonists
about church establishments was made quite clear by one of their pastors,
Francis Higginson:
We will not say, as the separatists who to say at their leaving of England, 'Farewell, Babylon! ' 'Farewell, Rome! 'but we will say 'Farewell, dear England! Farewell, the Church of God in England, and the Christian friends there!' We do not go to New England as spearatists from the Church of England; though we cannot but separate from the corruptions in it: but we go to practice the positive pall of church reformation, and propagate the gospel in America. |
