...taken off, the less might come unto them selves. But I leave these maters, and come to other things. Mr. Roger Williams ' (a man godly and zealous, having many precious parts, but very unsettled in judgmente) came over first to the Massachusets, but upon some discontente left that place, and came...

...Roger Williams. Probably the best contemporary judgment is that of Bradford, governor of Plymouth: "a man godly and zealous, having many precious parts, but very unsettled in judgment." (History of Plymouth Plantation, p. 299 of the edition in the present series.) That the Massachusetts...

...contentious. This is the view taken of him by his enemies. Bradford, in his History of Plymouth, calls him a man godly and zealous, having many precious parts, but very unsettled in judgment. Cotton Mather, in his Magnalia, spoke of his having a windmill in his head, but it must be remembered...

...might come unto them selves. But I leave these maters, and come to other things. Mr. Roger Williams 1 (a man godly and zealous, having many precious parts, but very unsettled in judgmente) came over first to the Massachusets, but upon some discontente left that place, and came...

...he had not gained among them a reputation for largeness of vision, for Bradford makes this record : Mr. Roger Williams (a man godly and zealous, having many precious parts, but very unsettled in judgemente) came over first to ye Massachusets, but upon some dlscontente left yt place and came hither,...

...conscience. His associates in the new world described him in terms less exalted. Bradford calls him a man godly and zealous, having many precious parts, but very unsettled in judgment. Cotton Mather spoke of his having a windmill in his head ; Sir William Martin and Hubbard both praised...

...refuge in the more liberal air of Plymouth, among the pilgrims. Governor Bradford says of him, ' ' Mr. Roger Williams, a man godly and zealous, having...(but very unsettled in judgment) , came over first to ye Massachusetts, and upon some discontent left ye place and came hither, where he was entertained...

...Plymouth. Of Williams in the Old Colony, Bradford gives a kindly account. " Roger Williams," he says, " a man godly and zealous, having many precious parts,...in judgment, came over first to the Massachusetts, upon some discontent left the place and came hither where he was freely entertained according to our...

...taken off, the less might come unto them selves. But I leave these maters, and come to other things. Mr. Roger Williams (a man godly and zealous, having many precious parts, but very unsettled in judgmente) came over first to the Massachusets, but upon some discontente left that place, and came...

...assistant to Mr. Skelton of the church of that town. He left behind him in Plymouth the reputation of "a man godly and zealous, having many precious parts, but very unsettled in judgement . . . he is to be pitied, and prayed for, and so I shall . . . desire the Lord to shew him...