This is substantially the conclusion of Judge Brayton. (Defence of Samuel Gorton). Footnote 67: That Gorton believed in civil government also clearly appears in his correspondence relating to the Quakers, where he expressly dissents from their views about government. Footnote 68: _Vide_ Nowell, Rawson, Winthrop, Winslow, Morton, _et al._ Footnote 69: “The Father was never knowne nor is he knowable but in Christ.” (Commentary on the Lord’s Prayer). Footnote 70: The quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are from Gorton’s unpublished Commentary on the Lord’s Prayer. (Commentary, p. 101). Footnote 71: “Though no church was formed in connection with his ministrations, he exercised a powerful influence upon the religious views of the Colony.” History of Warwick, p. 301. By Orris Payson Fuller, B. A. Footnote 72: He also differed with the Friends of his day in his views about government. Footnote 73: This is strongly emphasized in his Commentary on the Lord’s Prayer. Footnote 74: Commentary Mss., p. 11. See, also, p. 14, _et seq._, as well as “_Simplicities Defence_,” (R. I. Hist. Soc. Ed.) page 183. Footnote 75: Commentary Mss., page 57. Footnote 76: Dr. Fiske is in error in classing him as a follower of Anne Hutchinson. His theology was original and peculiarly his own. (Commentary Mss., p. 58). Footnote 77: Commentary Mss., p. 90. Footnote 78: It is hardly necessary to say that neither Gorton or Parker held this doctrine in any materialistic sense. It was a lofty philosophical conception that the entire creative energy was expressed in the divine nature, to conceive which as purely masculine was inadequate, anthropomorphic and irrational. Footnote 79: The first charge against Roger Williams, on which he was banished from Massachusetts Bay, accused him of teaching “That wee have not our land by Pattent from the King, but that the natives are the true owners of it and that wee ought to repent of such receiving it by Pattent.” Gorton agreed with Williams as to the necessity of purchase from the Indians, but thought the charter also necessary. Footnote 80: John M. Mackie, in “_Sparks’s American Biography_.” Samuel Eddy, Secretary of State of Rhode Island, _circum_ 1820, says of Gorton: “From the first establishment of the government he was almost constantly in office, and during a long life there is no instance of record to my knowledge of any reproach or censure cast upon him, no complaint of him, although history furnishes abundance of evidence that there were no lack of enemies to his person, principles, or property. This can hardly be said of any other settler of the Colony of any standing.” Quoted in Judge Brayton’s “_Defence of Samuel Gorton_.” Footnote 81: _Vide_ Winthrop’s Letters, the Portsmouth charges, etc. Footnote 82: