Note 6 — Chapter III · • The Chief Stewards of Theocracy
Reading edition
Magnalia, Vol. I, p. 265. Compare with this Cotton’s own words: “The law, which your Lordship instanceth (in that none shall be chosen to magistracy amongst us, but a church member) was made and enacted before I came into the country; but I have hitherto wanted sufficient light to plead against it” (Hutchinson, History of Massachusetts Bay Colony, Vol. I, p. 498).