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ACTS RELATING SECT. Part II. II 1' Sefilll. TO THE Commas. r2: forced them afunder with greater violence than it had collefled them together. They were like the men of Babel; no Ail/zlmc'? 9f l/a' c/zrzrtcrr gf‘Cos'z/xrfi'zl‘zzz and R/mla rifle/1d. " \ OD in his providence (Mr. Hut" chinfon very gravely remarks) " bringeth good out ofe\7il*." His proof is, " that it is to bigotry and blind zeal " we mul't attribute, if not the lettlement, man underflood his brother. But bigot- ry and blind zeal no more contributed to render Americaflawg‘flw'ng, than the mul- tiplicity of languages contribute to make men knowing. Thus much is certain, bigotry and blind zeal brought difperfion out of union. Hence " yet at lealt the pry/mt iiourifhing Rate " of North America." True it is that bigotry and blind zeal contributed to unpeople England, as it had to unpeople other parts of Europe; and that thofe who were driven by it from hence took refuge in America. Equally true it is that the fame fpirit of bigotry and blind zeal raged among the new emigrants with tenfold greater fury than it had ever raged [23mm them here; that it ew fettlements were formed, and new charters fued for. By degrees part ofthefe rcligionii'ls fell away from the relt. Some fettled upon the ri 'er Connecticut. Another part went and occupied Rhode Illand. Each of thefe (livilions bethought themfelves of apply- ing for, and found means of obtaining a feparate charter *. From that dilh‘iét, of which the whole had been already grant- ed to the whole body of the adventurers under the Plymouth charter, two large 9* See his liifiny of h-lafl‘achufet‘s Bay, vol. i. P- 3' forced 3‘ See Collec‘lion of Charters, No, vi. and vii. (li llricl‘fi |
