A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and…

Old Mr. Wilson Pastor of Boston, being desired by all the Elders of the Churches assembled at his house, that (on his dying bed) he would solemnly declare to them, what he conceived to be those sins, which provoked the displeasure of God against the Country, told them, that he had long feared these sins following as chief among others which God was greatly provoked by, 1. Separation. 2. Anabaptism. 3. Corahisme; when people rise up, as Corah, against their Ministers and Elders, as if they took too ⟨p. 156⟩much upon them, when indeed they do but Rule for Christ, and according to Christ; yet it is nothing for a brother to stand up and oppose without Scripture or reason, the doctrine and word of the Elder, saying, I am not satisfied, &c. And hence if he do not like the Administration, (be it Baptism or the like) he will then turn his back upon God and his Ordinances, and go away, &c. And (saith he) for our neglect of baptizing the children of the Church, those that some call Grand-children, I think God is provoked by it. 4. Another I take to be the making light of, and not subjecting to the Authority of Synods, without which the Churches cannot long subsist. And so for the Magistrates being Gallio like, not caring for these things, or else not using their power and authority, for the maintenance of the Truth and Gospel, and Ordinances, &c. Morton, p. 133. 184. And among the Poems there recorded of him, this is part,

Old Mr. Wilson Pastor of Boston, being desired by all the Elders of the Churches assembled at his house, that (on his dying bed) he would solemnly declare to them, what he conceived to be those sins, which provoked the displeasure of God against the Countrey, told them, that he had long feared these sins following as chief among others which God was greatly provoked by, 1. Separation. 2. Anabaptisme. 3. Corahisme; when people rise up, as Corah, against their Ministers and Elders, as if they took too ⟨p. 156⟩much upon them, when indeed they do but Rule for Christ, and according to Christ; yet it is nothing for a brother to stand up and oppose without Scripture or reason, the doctrine and word of the Elder, saying, I am not satisfied, &c. And hence if he do not like the Administration, (be it Baptisme or the like) he will then turn his back upon God and his Ordinances, and go away, &c. And (saith he) for our neglect of baptizing the children of the Church, those that some call Grand-children, I think God is provoked by it. 4. Another I take to be the making light of, and not subjecting to the Authority of Synods, without which the Churches cannot long subsist. And so for the Magistrates being Gallio like, not caring for these things, or else not using their power and authority, for the maintenance of the Truth and Gospel, and Ordinances, &c. Morton, p. 133. 184. And among the Poems there recorded of him, this is part,