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Ne suitor ultra crepidam, or, Brief animadversions upon the New-England Anabaptists late fallacious narrativeNe sutor ultra crepidam, or, Brief animadversions upon the New-England Anabaptists late fallacious narrative
Ne suitor ultra crepidam, or, Brief animadversions upon the New-England Anabaptists late fallacious narrative wherein the notorious mistakes and falsehoods [sic] by them published are detected / by Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston in New England.Ne sutor ultra crepidam, or, Brief animadversions upon the New-England Anabaptists late fallacious narrative wherein the notorious mistakes and falshoods [sic] by them published are detected / by Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston in New England.
printed by S. Green upon assignment of S. Sewall, 1681
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I have been a poor labourer in the Lords Vineyard in this place upwards of twenty years: and it is more than I know, if in all that time, any of those that scruple Infant-Baptism, have met with molestation from the Magistrate merely ⟨image 3⟩on the account of their Opinion. I would therefore entreat the Brethren, (and others of their persuasion; who may be of a Christian and moderate spirit) that have subscribed the Epistle, seriously to consider;
I have been a poor labourer in the Lords Vineyard in this place upwards of twenty years: and it is more than I know, if in all that time, any of those that scruple Infant-Baptisme, have met with molestation from the Magistrate meerly ⟨image 3⟩on the account of their Opinion. I would therefore intreat the Brethren, (and others of their perswasion; who may be of a Christian and moderate spirit) that have subscribed the Epistle, seriously to consider;
1. That the place may sometimes make a great alteration, as to indulgence to be expected. It is evident, that that Toleration is in one place, not only lawful, but a necessary duty, which in another place would be destructive; and the expectation of it irrational. That which is needful to ballast a great ship, will sink a small boat. If a considerable number of Antipaedobaptists should (as our Fathers here did) obtain Liberty from the State, to transport themselves and families, into a wast American wilderness, that so they might be a peculiar People by themselves; practising all, and only the institutions of Christ: if now Pado-Baptists should come after them, and intrude themselves upon them, and when they cast men out of their society for moral Scandals, entertain them: Surely they would desire such persons; either to walk orderly with them, or to return to the place from whence they came. And if they would do neither, they would think that such Pado-Baptists were blame-worthy: let them th•n do as they would be done by; and deal by us, as they would have us to deal by them; were they in our case, and we in theirs.