utinous." The
first Congregational historian of Salem, above quoted, says: "Endicot
had been the cause of all the rash proceedings against the Browns. He
was determined to execute his plan of Church government. Inexperienced
in the passions of men, and unaccustomed to consult even his friends, he
was resolved to admit of no opposition. They who could not be terrified
into silence _were not commanded to withdraw_, but were _seized_ and
_transported as criminals_."[40]

Such are the facts of the case itself, as related by the New England
Puritan writers themselves. I will now for a short time cross the
Atlantic, and see what were the professions and proceedings of the
Council or "Grand Court" of the Company in England in regard to the
chief objects of establishing the Plantation, their provision for its
religious wants, and their judgment afterwards of Endicot's proceedings.
In the Company's first letter of instructions to Endicot and his
Council, dated the 17th of April, 1629, they remind him that the
propagation of the Gospel was the primary object contemplated by them;
that they had appointed and contracted with three ministers to promote
that work, and instructed him to provide accommodation and necessaries
for them, according to agreement. They apprise him also of his
confirmation as "Governor of _our_ Plantation," and of the names of the
Councillors joined with him.[41] In their letter to Endicot, they call
the ministers sent by them "your ministers," and say: "For the manner of
exercising their ministry, and teaching both our own people and the
Indians, we leave that to themselves, hoping they will make God's Word
the rule of their actions, and mutually agree in the discharge of their
duties." Such instructions and directions have doubtless been given by
the Managing Boards of many Missionary Societies to missionaries whom
they sent abroad; but without the least suspicion that such missionaries
could, in good faith, on arriving at their destination, ignore the
Church and ordination in connection with which they had been employed,
and set up a new Church, and even be parties to banishing from their new
field of labour to which they had been sent, the members of the Church
of which they themselves were professed ministers when they received
their appointment and stipulated support.

Six weeks after transmitting to Endicot the letter above referred to,
the Company addressed to him a second general letter of instructi