546 the HISTORY of the PURITANS. Chap. IV". K Charles I. " tribulations which may not altogether unexpeEtedly, nor we hope un- r62^ " profitably befall us. Numbers of Wfien it appeared that the planters could fubfift in their new fettlement planters that great numbers of their friends with theirfamilies flocked after them every went aver the fummer. In the fucceeding twelve years of archbi(hop Laud's admi Zstwelve niftration, there went over about four thoufand. planters, who laid the Mather's hi- foundation of feveral little towns and villages up and down the country, fiory, N. E. carrying over with them in materials, money, and cattle, &c.. not his B. I' r7' than to the value of one hundred and ninety-two thoufand pounds, be- fides the merchandize intended for traffick.with the Indians. Upon the whole, it has been computed. that the four fettlements of New England,. viz. Plimouth, the Maffachufsts Bay, Connet`ticut. and Newhaven, all which were accomph(hed before the beginning of the civil wars, drained. England.of four or five hundred thoufand pounds in money, (a very great funi in thofe days). and if the perfecutiodof the puritans had continued twelve years longer, it is thought that a.fourth- part. of the riches of the kingdom would have palled out of it through this channel. Thechief leaders of the people into thefe parts were the puritan.minillers, who being hunted from one diocefe to another, at lafl. chofe this wilder- nefs for their retreat,, which has proved (through the over-ruling provi- dence of God), a great acceffion to the flrength and commerce of there kingdoms. 1 have before me a lift of feventy-feven divines, who became paftors of fundry little . churches and congregations in that countrybefore the year í;64o. all of whomwere in orders in the church. of. England. The reader. will meet with an account of force of them in the courfe of this hiflory. ;: and I muff fay, though they were not all. of the ñrft rank for deep and. extenfive learning, yet they had a better fhare of it than moll of the neighbouring clergy ;, and which is of more confequence, they were men of flrift fobriety and virtue; plain, ferious, affeélionate preachers, exac ly conformable in fentiment to the doëtrinal..articles of the church of England,_ and took a great deal of pains to promote chriflian knowledge; and a reformation ofmanners in their feveral. parifhes.. 1630. To return to England.;. though Dr. Davenant the learned bifhop of BilhopDave- Salifbury, had declared for the doctrine of univerfal redemption at the fynod. Want cen-. of Dort, he was this.. ear brought into trouble for touchingupon the point preacchingup- of predeflination, in hisLent fermon before the kingon Romans vi. a3. The an piedejitna- ftof Gad is eternal life, through refus Chrili our Lord. This was con- t, °n' ¡trued as a contempt of the kings injun5t;ons, for which his lordíhip was Fuller, B. XI. two days after fummoned before the privy council, where he prefented P. 138. himfelf upon his kneesy and fo-hadcontinued, for any favour he received from any of his own function then preterit;. but the temporal Lords bid him rife and fiand to his defence. The accufation was managed by. Dr. IIarfenet;
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