 He was their ruling elder, which seems to have been the bar to his being their Governor — civil and ecclesiastical office, in the same person, being then deemed incompatible.  Genealogy of the Kennan Family - 第 30 頁Thomas Lathrop Kennan 著 - 1907 - 121 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Antonio de Alcedo - 1814 - 654 頁
...province. William Brewster was highly esteemed by the whole company, was their ruling elder in Holland, which seems to have been the bar to his being their...and ecclesiastical office, in the same person, being then deemed incompatible. Mr. Bradford gives this account of him : " After he had attained the knowledge... | |
 | 1841 - 546 頁
...has sometimes been asked, Why was not Brewster chosen ? The answer is given by Hutchinson, ii. 460. " He was their ruling elder, which seems to have been...and ecclesiastical office in the same person being then deemed incompatible." ' Here the daily journal breaks off, and an interval of three months occurs... | |
 | 1841 - 552 頁
...has sometimes been asked, Wby was not Brewster chosen ? The answer is given by Hutchinson, ii. 460. " He was their ruling elder, which seems to have been...and ecclesiastical office in the same person being then deemed incompatible." 1 Here the daily journal breaks off, and an interval of three months occurs... | |
 | Ashbel Steele - 1857 - 438 頁
...their ruling elder? And the reason why he was not chosen to be their first governor, says Hutchinson, was that " He was their ruling elder, which seems...his being their governor; civil and ecclesiastical oiBce in the same person being then deemed incompatible."20 While in his place as elder they could... | |
 | 1910 - 320 頁
...the Elder was not chosen the first Governor of the Plymouth Colony, say Hutchinson in his History, was that, "He was their ruling elder, which seems...and ecclesiastical office, in the same person, being then deemed incompatible." Perhaps an equally cogent reason was that an outlawed exile would hardly... | |
 | Daniel Ozro Smith Lowell - 1920 - 278 頁
...and PRINCE, made Governor of Plymouth Colony? The historian Hutchinson explains this when he says: He was their ruling Elder, which seems to have been...and ecclesiastical office, in the same person, being then deemed incompatible. ELDER BREWSTER was by far the most learned man among the early colonists;... | |
 | Emma C. Brewster Jones - 1908 - 380 頁
...the Elder was not chosen the first Governor of the Plymouth Colony, says Hutchinson in his History, was that " He was their ruling elder, which seems...and ecclesiastical office, in the same person, being then deemed incompatible." Perhaps an equally cogent reason was that an outlawed exile would hardly... | |
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