Memorial of the Centennial of the Organization of the Church in the State of New Jersey (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Memorial of the Centennial of the Organization of the Church in the State of New Jersey

Hence they provided, as a fundamental principle in their legislation, for the summary expulsion of all who had any taint of false doctrine, of whatever sort it might be, and with quite impartial determination drove out, under manifold pains and penalties, the dreaded Papist, the levelling Quaker, the abhorred Anabaptist, and - what, perhaps, they loathed more than any others - the pampered and corrupted Formalist of the hated old Church of England, from whose oppressions they had fied as voluntary exiles to this far-off. Land.

The Holland Dutch around New York and in North Jersey showed a less active hostility to the Church of England, but they were quite as averse from its ecclesiastical organiza tion, and quite as ready to oppose it in the exercise of any special privileges which it might happen at any time to oh tain from the favor of the royal authorities, or the Acts of the Colonial Assembly.

The Quakers of Pennsylvania and Southern Jersey, under the garb of a placid and unwarlike passivity, were yet intensely hostile to the Church, and opposed its growth among them as determinedly as the most violent Puritan of Connecticut or Boston.

Hence throughout the northern provinces the Church of England, during a considerable portion of the colonial period, was a nullity as to real power, and at the same time was both hated and feared by a very large number in almost every com munity.

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