[am] "It cut the churches loose from dependence upon state support--It threw them wholly on their own resources and on God." "The mass is changing," wrote Dr. Beecher. "We are becoming another people. The old laws answered when all men in a parish were of one faith."--Lyman Beecher, _Autobiography,_ i, pp. 344, 453. [an] Lyman Beecher. APPENDIX NOTES CHAPTER I. THE EVOLUTION OF EARLY CONGREGATIONALISM. 1, H. M. Dexter, Congregationalism as seen in Literature, p. 49. 2, Robert Browne, A True and Short Declaration, p. l. 3, H. M. Dexter, Congregationalism as seen in Literature, p. 70. 4, Report of Conference April 3, 1590, quoted in F. J. Powicke, Henry Barrowe, p. 54. 5, W. Walker, Creeds and Platforms, p. 12. 6, Ibid., pp. 14, 15; also H. M. Dexter, Congregationalism as seen in Literature, pp. 96-104. 7, Robert Browne, A Treatise on Reformation without Tarrying, pp. 4, 7,12. 8, Robert Browne, A True and Short Declaration, p. 7; Book which Sheweth, pp. 117-148. 9, Robert Browne, Book which Sheweth, Questions 55-58. 10, Ibid., Def. 35-40; Henry Barrowe, Discovery of False Churches, p. 34, and The True Description in Appendix IV of F. J. Powicke's Henry Barrowe. 11, Robert Browne, Book which Sheweth, Def. 53 and 54. 12, Henry Barrowe, Discovery of False Churches, p. 48. 13, Henry Barrowe, Discovery of False Churches, pp. 166, 275; Robert Browne, Book which Sheweth, Def. 51; A True and Short Declaration, p. 20; The True Confession of Faith, Article 38. 14, H. M. Dexter, Congregationalism as seen in Literature, pp. 221, 232; also John Brown, Pilgrim Fathers of New England, pp. 22-25. 15, The True Confession, Art. 39. 16, "The Seven Articles," of which the following is the text:-- (1) "To ye confession of fayth published in ye name of ye Church of England and to every artikell thereof wee do w'th ye reformed churches wheer wee live & also els where assent wholly.". (2) "And as wee do acknowlidg ye doctryne of fayth theer tawght so do wee ye fruites and effeckts of ye same docktryne to ye begetting of saving fayth in thousands in ye land (conformistes & reformistes) as ye ar called w'th whom also as w'th our brethren wee do desyer to keepe speirtuall communion in peace and will pracktis in our parts all lawful thinges." (3) "The King's Majesty wee acknowlidg for Supreme Governor in his dominion in all causes, and over all parsons [persons] and ye none maye decklyne or apeale his authority or judgment in any cause whatsoever, but ye in all thinges obedience is dewe unto him, either active, if ye thing commanded be not against God's woord, or passive yf itt bee, except pardon can bee obtayned."