115.
[138:1] "Mr.Hooker did often quote a saying out of Mr.Cartwright, that no man fashioneth his house to his hangings, but his hangings to his house.

It is better that the commonwealth be fashioned to the setting forth of God's house, which is his church, than to accommodate the church frame to the civil state" (John Cotton, quoted by L.Bacon, "Historical Discourses," p.

18).
[139:1] Thomas, "The Society of Friends," p.

239.
[139:2] Corwin, "Reformed (Dutch) Church," pp.

77, 78, 173.
[140:1] Illustrations of the sordid sectarianism of the "Venerable Society's" operations are painfully frequent in the pages of the "digest of the S.P.G." See especially on this particular case the action respecting Messrs.