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To authorize an untruth, by toleration of State, is to build a sconce against the Walls of Heaven, to batter God out of his chair. The Cobler of Aggawam. I have often wondered in my younger dayes how the Pope came to such a height of arogancie, but since I came to New England I have perceived the height of that tripple crowne, and also the depth of that sea.
Johnson's Wonder Working Providence, in the same collection, is a history from the point of view of a loyal Puritan of average education and intelligence. Morton's New English Canaan and The Simple Cobler of Aggawam are printed in Force's Tracts and Other Papers, vols.
See also Thomas Hooker's Survey of the Summe of Church Discipline, London, 1648. The intolerant spirit of the time finds quaint and forcible expression in Nathaniel Ward's satirical book, The Simple Cobbler of Aggawam, 1647.
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