There were those who wished to give time for a second admonition before excommunication, but they were overruled, probably by Wilson. Winthrop, i, 310. It would, perhaps, have been in better form to take the other and less eager course. There is a Latin paper in the British Public Record Office, dated 3 March, 1635, which professes to give a brief and orderly digest of the canons of government constituted and observed in the reformed New England churches. I am unable to trace its authority. From this I quote; "Qui pertinacitur consistorii admonitiones rejecerit a coena domini suspendatur. Si suspensus, post iteratus admonitiones nulla poenitentiæ signum dederit ad excomunicationem procedat Ecclesia." [Sidenote: Note 9, page 341.] It would be a waste of time to controvert the ingenious apologies which have been written to prove that an inexorable necessity compelled the banishment of the Antinomians. The Massachusetts government was in its very nature and theory opposed to religious toleration, as we may see by the reference of the case of Gorton and his companions to the elders, and their verdict that these men, not residents of the jurisdiction, ought to be put to death for constructive blasphemy, a decision that the magistrates by a majority vote would have put in execution if the "deputies" or representative members of the assembly had not dissented. Savage's Winthrop's Journal, ii, 177. The doctrine of intolerance is ingeniously set forth in Cotton's "The Powring Ovt of the Seven Vials, ... very fit and necessary for this Present Age," published in 1642. Cotton compares Jesuits and heretics to wolves, and says, "Is it not an acceptable service to the whole Country to cut off the ravening Wolves?" The Puritans of New England from their very circumstances were slower to accept the doctrine of religious liberty than their coreligionists in England. INDEX Abbot, Abp., on Calvert's resignation, 259, n. 6. Abercromby's Examination, 258, n. 4; 262, n. 11; 263, n. 12. Aberdeen Burgh Records, no Sabbatarian legislation in, 140, n. 12; quaint ordinance from, 140, n. 12. Accidents, New England hung on a chain of slender, 176. Act, for Church Liberties, 1639, 251; 265, n. 22; for discovering popish recusants, 237, m.; of Toleration, 1649, 255, 256; act to prevent, etc., 237, m. Activity, intellectual, men excited to unwonted, 1. Adam's needle and thread, garments woven of fiber of, 79; efforts to cultivate, 80. Admonition to the People of England, 115, m. Advertisements for Planters of New England, 27, m. Age of romance and adventure, an, 1, 20; of colony beginnings, 92; dramatic and poetic to its core, 100. Agrarian and industrial disturbance aids the Puritan movement, 111. Ainsworth wrote tractate on the Jewish ephod, 108. Alexander, William, Encouragement to Colonies, 258, n. 3. Alleghanies deemed almost impassable, 11. Almond, an, for a Parrat, 116.