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A just complaint against an unjust doer Wherein is declared the miserable slavery &…A iust complaint against an uniust doer Wherein is declared the miserable slaverie &…
A just complaint against an unjust doer Wherein is declared the miserable slavery & bondage that the English Church of Amsterdam is now in, by reason of the tyrannical government and corrupt doctrine, of Mr. John Pagett their present minister. The which things are plainly manifested in two certain letters, the one written by Mr. John Davenport to the dutch classis, the other given up to the English consistory by some of the brethren. With other brief passages tending to the same effect. Published by one that much pities them and prays daily for their deliverance.A iust complaint against an uniust doer Wherein is declared the miserable slaverie & bondage that the English Church of Amsterdam is now in, by reason of the tirannicall government and corrupt doctrine, of Mr. Iohn Pagett their present minister. The which things are plainly manifested in two certein letters, the one written by Mr. Iohn Davenport to the dutch classis, the other given vp to the English consistorie by some of the brethren. With other briefe passages tending to the same effect. Published by one that much pitties them and prayes dayly for their deliverance.
Amsterdam? : s.n., Printed Anno 1634
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If ever he did desire me, An. I have given him no cause to repent of it, but to desire it more, unless he takes offence at this, that I dare not venture upon doing that which I account unlawful, or at this, that I report the truth of things as they passed when I am provoked thereunto.
If ever he did desire me, An. I have given him no cause to repent of it, but to desire it more, vnles he takes offence at this, that I dare not venture vpon doeing that which I account unlawfull, or at this, that I report the truth of things as they passed when I am provoked thervnto.
But it seems to me that he never did desire it, for these reasons. 1. bec. before I came hither, when he heard I was to come over, he preached publicly against my resigning up my place, which afterward he justified, when I related to him ⟨p. 15⟩the cause thereof, the carriage therein, and the consent of many worthy divines, and of the congregation it self thereunto.
But it seemes to me that he never did desire it, for these reasons. 1. bec. before I came hither, when he heard I was to come over, he preached publickly against my resigning up my place, which afterward he just•fied, when I related to him ⟨p. 15⟩the cause therof, the carriage therin, and the consent of many worthy devines, and of the congregation it selfe therunto.
Secondly because several times he showed his dislike of my coming hither, without his desire or consent in sending for me, though it is apparent that God sent me hither at a needful time, when without me they would have been destitute, he being unable to preach, or to come to the Church.