As the lower ranks of society are governed by imitation, the conversion of those who possessed any eminence of birth, of power, or of...

The success of the people and Parliament of England in their efforts to gain greater freedom and more representation had made an impression on the people of Massachusetts. They were troubled that there was now more freedom in England than in the Bay Colony. Malcontents who had been denied the vote were horrified at the thought of being more restricted in New England than they would have been at home. It was inevitable that the future should bring an ever-increasing disharmony

Oecolampad: What I have said, preached, and written I would henceforth also do and prayerfully command others also to do, for your teaching is a wholly new fantasy, begun here and elsewhere in the past two years. Therefore it is suspect.

Zwingli : We let the women also go to the Lord's Supper, but do not read that women were at the Supper of Christ.

Then water baptism follows. Not that the same cleanses the souls but rather the "yes" of a good conscience toward God which preceded inwardly in faith.

Beloved in God: I know and must confess with the prophet Jeremiah that the way of the human being does not lie in his own power; nor does it lie in the power of man to govern his own steps [Jer. 10:23]. The human heart undertakes also to do something for itself, but God directs and controls according to his pleasure. For I had always intended to remain alone in my barrel and cave and not at all to creep out into the light, not that I feared the light, but in order that I migh