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.