Abstract
erty of Conscience allowed in the Worship of God.'l England's new official policy of imposed religious toleration ended forever the possibility of an exclusive religious community in New England and thus clashed with one of the most cherished aims of the founding generation. Provincial New Englanders confronted a dilemma, for they could not remain loyal to their tradition of religious uniformity and at the same time accept toleration. Those eighteenth-century ministers who wrote the history of New England, oddly enough, not only praised the Charter of 1691 but argued that toleration exemplified the best aims of the first American Puritans. What should have
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