ational, proceeds to defend
compulsory attendance at the established worship upon the ground of
preventing Sabbath profaneness (which was a perversion of Sir R.
Saltonstall's letter), the same as compulsory attendance at the
established worship was justified in the time of Elizabeth and James the
First, and against which the whole army of Puritan writers had
contended. Some of Cotton's words were as follows: "But (you say) it
doth make men hypocrites to compel men to conforme the outward men for
fear of punishment. If it did so, yet better be hypocrites than profane
persons. Hypocrites give God part of his due, the outward man; but the
profane person giveth God neither the outward or inward man."--"If the
magistrate connive at his absenting himself from the Sabbath duties, the
sin will be greater in the magistrate than can be the other's coming."

Mr. Hutchinson, referring to Sir R. Saltonstall's letter, says:--"It
discovers a good deal of that catholic spirit which too many of our
first settlers were destitute of, and confirms what I have said of Mr.
Dudley's zeal in the first volume of the Massachusetts History."]

[Footnote 107: History of the United States, Vol. I., p. 484.

"I believe," says Mr. Bancroft, "that the elder Winthrop had relented
before his death, and, it is said, became weary of banishing heretics.
The soul of the younger Winthrop was incapable of harbouring a thought
of intolerant cruelty; but the rugged Dudley was not mellowed by old
age." Cotton affirmed: "Better tolerate hypocrites and tares than thorns
and briers." "Religion," said Norton, from the pulpit, "admits of no
eccentric motions." (_Ib._, pp. 486, 487.)]

[Footnote 108: Burke, Vol. II., Second London Edition, 1758, pp.
148-152.]

[Footnote 109: "In October, 1650, the Commons passed a memorable
ordinance, prohibiting trade with Barbadoes, Virginia, Antigua, and the
Bermudas, because they had adhered to the fortunes of their late
Sovereign. It declared such persons 'notorious robbers and traitors;' it
forbade every one to confederate with them; it prohibited all foreign
vessels from sailing thither, and it empowered the Council of State to
compel all opponents to obey the authority of Parliament. Berkley's
defence of Virginia against the fortunate invaders gained him the
approbation of his prince and the applause of his countrymen. When he
could no longer fight, he delivered up the government, upon such
favourable terms as the English