In "Young Goodman Brown", how does Goodman Brown view his action in relation to his family history?

There is quite
a bit ofto be read at those references to Goodman Brown's family members.  Brown believes that
he comes from a long line of faithful and upstanding citizens of the Puritan community and the
Devil agrees and brings up two examples examples.  He says, "I helped your grandfather, the
constable, when he lashed the Quaker woman so smartly throught the streets of Salam."  To
Brown's ears, the actions of his grandfather are good because Quakers were not of the truth
faith and needed to be punished for their practice of their varient religious beliefs.  But we
as readers recognize that Hawthorne is illustrating the narrow-minded and cruel behavior of the
Puritans. 

The second example the Devil mentions is that it was he that
"brought your father a pitch-pine knot, kindled in my own hearth, to set fire to an Indian
village."  Again, Brown sees his father's action against the innocent Indians as an
appropriate thing because the heathen Indians were "bad,"  but Hawthorne...