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68 Memoir of
proceedings were supposed to bear hard upon
the liberties of the churches; for the clergy
still retained (_67o) a great proportion of the
weight they had at the beginning ....
"As long as the charter continued, their in-
fluence in the affairs of government continued,"
&c.e
Dr. Hubbard expressly declares, in his summary
of the ecclesiastical constitution of the
Colony, that "church government and civil
government may very well stand together, it
being the duty of the magistrate to take care
of matters of religion." At the time of Mr.
Whiting's arrival in New England, intolerance
had become fierce and inexorable. In i635 the
controversy between the churches and Roger
Williams had broken out, an old dispute re-
newed with new disputants. An assemblage,
or synod, of all the ministers of the Bay was
summoned to be present at Boston. Williams
appeared before them. They discussed his
doctrines with him, but could only agree that
he was in the wrong. The General Court then
x Hutchinson, 25I.