lves; it used no Liturgy, and it rejected
unnecessary ceremonies; and reduced the simplicity of Calvin to a still
plainer standard." "There existed even in this little company a few
individuals to whom the new system was unexpected; and in John and
Samuel Brown they found able leaders. Both were members of the Colonial
Council, and they had been favourites of the Corporation in England; and
one of them, an experienced and meritorious lawyer, had been a member of
the Board of Assistants in London. They declared their dissent from the
Church of Higginson; and at every risk of union and tranquillity, they
insisted upon the use of the English Liturgy." "Finding it to be a vain
attempt to persuade the Browns to relinquish their resolute opposition,
and _believing_ that their speeches _tended_ to produce _disorder_ and
dangerous feuds, Endicot sent them back to England in the returning
ships; and _faction_, deprived of its leaders, died away."[36]

It is clear from these statements--partial as they are in favour of
Endicot and against the Browns--that Endicot himself was the innovator,
the Church revolutionist and the would-be founder of a new Church, the
real schismatic from the old Church, and therefore responsible for any
discussions which might arise from his proceedings; while the Browns and
their friends were for standing in the old ways and walking in the old
paths, refusing to be of those who were given to change. Mr. Bancroft
says that "the _new system_ was _unexpected_" to them. Mr. Palfrey says
that "John and Samuel Brown, considering the late proceedings, _as well
they might_, to amount to a _secession from the national Establishment_,
they, with some others of the same mind, set up a separate worship
conducted according to the Book of Common Prayer." Or, more properly,
they _continued_ the worship according to the Book of Common Prayer,
which they and their fathers had practised, as well as Endicot and
Higginson themselves up to that day, refusing to leave the old Church of
the Reformation, and come into a new Church founded by joining of hands
of thirty persons, in a new covenant, walking around the place of the
old town-pump of Salem. Mr. Endicot is sent from England as the manager
of a trading Company, and invested with powers as their local temporary
Governor, to manage their business and remove persons that might disturb
or interfere with its operations; and he becomes acquainted with a
Doctor Fuller, a deaco