eparation in England, which occasioned the caution to be used
with him. He was a little while in Nantasket, and went from thence to
Plymouth, where he was their minister for several years. (Hutchinson's
History of Massachusetts Bay, Vol. I., pp. 10, 11.)]

[Footnote 30: Hutchinson's History of Massachusetts Bay, Vol. I., pp.
11, 12.]

[Footnote 31: How much of the Church system thus introduced had already
been resolved upon before the colonists of the Massachusetts Company
left England, and how long a time, if any, previous to their emigration
such an agreement was made, are questions which we have probably not
sufficient means to determine. Thus much is certain--that when Skelton
and Higginson reached Salem, they found Endicot, who was not only their
Governor, but one of the six considerable men who had made the first
movement for a patent, fully prepared for the ecclesiastical
organization which was presently instituted. In the month before their
arrival, Endicot, in a letter [May 11, 1629] to Bradford thanking him
for the visit of Fuller, had said: 'I rejoice much that I am by him
satisfied touching your judgments of the outward form of God's
worship.'--Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, First
Series, Vol. III., p. 65.]

[Footnote 32: Cotton Mather relates that, taking the last look at his
native shore, Higginson said, 'We will not say, as the Separatists say,
"Farewell, Babylon; farewell, Rome;" but we will say, "Farewell, dear
England; farewell, Church of God in England, and all the Christian
friends there. We do not go to New England as separatists from the
Church of England, though we cannot but separate from the corruptions of
it. But we go to practise the positive part of Church reformation, and
propagate the gospel in America.'"--Magnalia, Book III., Part II., Chap.
i., quoted by Palfrey, Vol. I., p. 297, in a note.

"They were careful to distinguish themselves from the Brownist and other
Separatists. Had they remained in England, and the Church been governed
with the wisdom and moderation of the present day, they would have
remained, to use their own expression, 'in the bosom of the Church where
they had received their hopes of salvation.'"--Hutchinson's History of
Massachusetts Bay, Vol. I., p. 417.

Note by Mr. Hutchinson: "The son of one of the first ministers, in a
preface to a sermon preached soon after the Revolution, remarks that 'if
the bishops in the reign of King Charles the F