[b] "Noe man shal be admitted to the freedome of this body politicke, but such as are members of some of the churches within the lymitts of the same."--Mass. Col. Rec. i, 87, under date of May 28, 1631. "Church members onely shall be free burgesses and they onely shall chuse magistrates and officers among themselves to haue the power of transacting in all publique and ciuill affayres of this plantatio."--New Haven Col. Rec. i, 15; also ii, 115, 116. The governments of Massachusetts and New Haven "never absolutely merged church and state." The franchise depended on church-membership, but the voter, exercising his right in directing the affairs of the colony, was speaking, "not as the church but as the civil Court of Legislation and adjudication."--W. Walker, _History of the Congregational Churches_, p. 123. Yet it was due to this merging and this dependence that on October 25, 1639, there were only sixteen free burgesses or voters out of one hundred and forty-four planters in the New Haven Colony.--See N. H. Col. Rec. i, 20. "Theoretically Church and State (in Connecticut) were separated: practically they were so interwoven that separation would have meant the severance of soul and body."--C. M. Andrews, _Three River Towns of Conn_. p. 22. [c] To John Cotton's "democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain, as a fit government for church or commonwealth," and to Gov. Winthrop's objections to committing matters to the judgment of the body of the people because "safety lies in the councils of the best part which is always the least, and of the best part, the wiser is always the lesser," Hooker replied that "in all matters which concern the common good, a general council, chosen by all, to transact the business which concerns all, I conceive under favor, most suitable to rule and most safe for the relief of the whole."--Hutchinson, _Hist. of Mass._ i, App. iii. [d] (1) To adjust a difference between Governor Winthrop and Deputy Dudley in 1632; (2) about building a fort at Nantasket, February, 1632; (3) in regard to the settlement of the Rev. John Cotton, September, 1633; (4) in consultation concerning Roger Williams's denial of the patent, January, 1634; (5) concerning rights of trade at Kennebec, July, 1634; (6) in regard to the fort on Castle Island, August, 1634; (7) concerning the rumor in 1635 of the coming of a Governor-General; and (8) in the case of Mr. Nowell.--_Winthrop_, i, pp. 89, 99, 112, 122, 136-137, 159-181. [e] Roger Williams was the real author of the letters which the Salem church was required to disclaim. [f] Upon a further suggestion from the General Court, John Cotton prepared a catechism entitled, _Milk for Babes_. [g] Governor Winthrop replied to Dr. Skelton's objections that "no church or person could have authority over another church."--See H. M. Dexter, _Ecclesiastical Councils of New England_, p. 31; _Winthrop_, i. p. 139.