Cotton, John, apparent sanction of Antinomianism by, 267; one of the greatest luminaries of the Puritans and one of the lights of New England, 269; apostle of theocracy, shaped ecclesiastical affairs in New England, 279, 308, n. 8; his rivals left Massachusetts, 280; virtually attained a bishop's authority, 280; on Williams's book, 282; complete system of church-state organization, 287; verbal legerdemain on Williams's banishment, 297; casuistry of, 299, 313, n. 20; 321; attitude toward Williams's banishment, 299, 300, 313, n. 21; source of his intolerance, 300; belongs among the diplomatic builders of churches, 306; uncandid and halting accounts of Williams's trial, 309, 310, n. 12; 311, n. 17; curious sinuosity of conscience, 313, n. 21; secured by Boston to balance Newtown's Hooker, 319; rivalry with Hooker, 320; Puritanism of, grew in a garden of spices, 321; of a sanguine temperament, 328; his advent followed by widespread religious excitement, 329; theological differences between his teachings and those of Hooker, 346, n. 1; Model of Moses his Judicials, 326; opinions recanted and modified by, 336; defends Mrs. Hutchinson, 337; persuades her to recant, 339; disfranchises her sons, 339; belated zeal of, against the sectaries, 341; wallows in superstition, 341. Cotton planted, 29. Cotton's Answer to Williams's Examination, 308, n. 10, 11; 310, n. 16; 313, n. 20, 21; Fountain of Life, 328, m.; Sermon on the Church's Resurrection, 331, m.; 334, m.; Way of Congregational Churches, 157, n. 2; 219, n. 10; 330, m.; 336, m. Council for New England grants a patent to the Massachusetts projectors, 199, 207. Councilors of estate in Virginia, 55. Counter-Blaste to Tobacco, 84, m. Country, a barren, a great whet to industry, 177. Courtier, the honor of a, possessed by Calvert, 223; the happiest has least to do at court, 258, n. 1. Courts of High Commission, penalties of, 270. Covenant of grace _vs._ covenant of works, 331, 334, 335. Cox, Richard, followers of, dispute with those of John Knox, 105. Cox's Literature of the Sabbath Question, 127, m.; 138, n. 8; 139, n. 10. Cradock, Mathew, Governor of the Massachusetts Company, proposes transfer of the government, 206, 208, 209; resigned his governorship, 210; denounced by Laud, 211; letter to Endecott, 216, n. 4. Credulity about America, 2, 20; abyss of seventeenth century, 341. Customs, low, advocated by Captain John Smith, 37. Cyuile and Vncyuile Life, 134, n. 1. Dainties, preachers who spread a table of, complained of, 328, 348, n. 5. Dainty, Argall's voyage in the, 50.