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this community of saints it was not " State controlling the 

 Church, but Church controlling the State." The people 

 of Salem felt this to be :i orrievous wronfj and wrote to 

 other churches in the Bay to instruct their delegates 

 to vote differently. This, as there were no newspapers, 

 was all they could do ; but it seemed to the magistrates 

 like open rebellion and accordingly the Salem deputies were 

 deprived of their privileges and disfranchised till ample 

 apology had been made. Mr. Endicott, their principal 

 deputy, was imprisoned for his adherence to the doctrines 

 of the letter. 



The ministers, with Mr. Cotton and Mr. Hooker at 

 their head, sent a committee to Salem to deal with Mr. 

 Williams, but he disowned their "spiritual jurisdiction." 

 Then the ministers, at the request of the Court, assembled 

 to consider his case, and to give their advice to the magis- 

 trates. They " professedly declared " that he deserved to 

 be banished from the colony for maintaining the doctrine 

 " that the civil magistrate might not intermeddle even 

 to stop a church from apostacy and heresy," and that the 

 churches ought to request the magistrates to remove him. 

 In July Mr. Williams was summoned to Boston to answer 

 to the charges brought against him. He was here solemnly 

 charged with the crime of maintaining the following 

 dangerous opinions : 



1. That the magistrate ought not to punish the breach 

 of the first table, except when the civil peace should be 

 endangered. 



2. That an oath ought not to be tendered to an unre- 

 generate man. 



3. That a man ought not to pray with the uuregener- 

 ate, even though it be with his wife or child. 



