volume, will cherish their memory, imbibe their spirit, and perpetuate their principles. Nothing seems to bring us so near to them as to read the history of their doings written in their own style by those of their own time and number. We seem to be in their company and to join in their consultations and their prayers while they contemplate their removal to America. We sympathize in their crosses, and few comforts. We admire their pious magnanimity and constancy, and almost feel their sufferings. May it be the means of deepening our convictions of the importance of their religious principles, and of the desirableness of that strong and living faith which sustained their hearts, impelled them forward in their pilgrimage, and enabled them to say, as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing." Their history serves as a powerful illustration of the truth and efficacy of their principles, and furnishes an example worthy of our grateful admiration. In "O ye, who proudly boast, your free veins the blood of sires like these, Too close around your heart, or wealth beget From manly virtue, or the tempting world Make faint the Christian purpose in your soul, Turn ye to Plymouth rock, and where they knelt, Kneel, and renew the vow they breathed to God." Boston, 1855. CONTENTS. NEW ENGLAND'S MEMORIAL, OR A BRIEF RELATION OF THE REMARKABLE PASSAGES OF THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD MANIFESTED TO THE PLANTERS OF NEW ENGLAND IN CHAPTER II. Of their departure into Holland, and their trou- bles thereabout, with some of the many difficulties they found 247-251 of living and entertainment there CHAPTER IV. Showing the reasons and causes of their removal 258-262 L. A journey to Pakanokit, the habitation of the great King Mas- . 359-367 The labors of the Pilgrims and early settlers of the Plymouth Colony, for the instruction and conversion of the Indians . 379-399 The Faith and Order of the Leyden-Plymouth Church; and their The Articles of Faith and Covenant of 1629, and of 1636 . Gov. Winslow's account of the natives of New England 459-464 A Description of Plymouth, by De Rasieres, an ambassador froin 495-500 |