or Ministers, who are taken away and cease, and are not established and confirmed by Death, as holding no Correspondency with the princely Dignity, Office, and Ministry of our Melchisedek, who is the only Minister and Ministry of the Sanctuary, and of that true Tabernacle which the Lord pitcht, and not Man.  For it supplants the Old Man, and implants the New; abrogates the Old Testament or Covenant, and confirms the New, unto a thousand Generations, or in Generations forever.  By Samuel Gorton, Gent., and at the time of penning hereof, in the Place of Judicature (upon Aquethneck, alias Road Island) of Providence Plantations in the Nanhyganset Bay, New England.  Printed in the Yeere 1647.”

[15] Father of Benedict Arnold, afterward governor of Rhode Island, and owner of the stone windmill (apparently copied from one in Chesterton, Warwickshire) which was formerly supposed by some antiquarians to be a vestige of the Northmen.  Governor Benedict Arnold was great-grandfather of the traitor.

[16] Gorton, Simplicitie’s Defence against Seven-headed Policy, p. 88.

[17] De Forest, History of the Indians of Connecticut, Hartford, 1850, p. 198.

[18] Doyle, Puritan Colonies, i. 324.

[19] See below, p. 222, note.

[20] See my Excursions of an Evolutionist, pp. 239-242, 250-255, 286-289.

[21] Gorton’s life at Warwick, after all these troubles, seems to have been quiet and happy.  He died in 1677 at a great age.  In 1771 Dr. Ezra Stiles visited, in Providence, his last surviving disciple, born in 1691.  This old man said that Gorton wrote in heaven, and none can understand his books except those who live in heaven while on earth.

[22] Doyle, Puritan Colonies,:  i. 369.

[23] Doyle, i.:  372.

[24] Milman, Latin Christianity, vii. 390.

[25] Doyle, ii. 133, 134; Rhode Island Records, i. 377, 378.

[26] Colonial Laws of Massachusetts, pp. 14-16; Levermore’s Republic of New Haven, p. 153.

[27] See my remarks above, p. 145.

[28] The daring passage in the sermon is thus given in Bacon’s Historical Discourses, New Haven, 1838:  “Withhold not countenance, entertainment, and protection from the people of God—­whom men may call fools and fanatics—­if any such come to you from other countries, as from France or England, or any other place.  Be not forgetful to entertain strangers.  Remember those that are in bonds, as bound with them.  The Lord required this of Moab, saying, ’Make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.  Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler.’  Is it objected—­’But so I may expose myself to be spoiled or troubled’?  He, therefore, to remove this objection, addeth, ’For the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.’  While we are attending to our duty in owning and harbouring Christ’s witnesses, God will be providing for their and our safety, by destroying those that would destroy his people.”