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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.
Now follows the Narrative it self, in which the first thing that accosts us is (indeed) a brief account of their congregating, or that act of theirs in gathering a Church; where we have the moving cause, the manner, and the materials of it.
1. The moving cause of it is brief and pithy: It pleased God to move their hearts] and if this be indeed so, then those that opposed them in it, and endeavoured to suppress them, will be found fighters against God, and to act in vain, for the Will of God shall be accomplished, and no weapon formed against it shall prosper: and this Argument we shall find them making use of (page 2.) But who knows not that all Heretics pretend to the Spirit and Direction of God, though it's certain that in so doing they take the Name of God in vain: and it's little less then Blasphemy to bring God in, to patronize their sinful Actions: For,
1. The moving cause of it is brief and pithy: It pleased God to move their hearts] and if this be indeed so, then those that opposed them in it, and endeavoured to suppress them, will be found fighters against God, and to act in vain, for the Will of God shall be accomplished, and no weapon formed against it shall prosper: and this Argument we shall finde them making use of (page 2.) But who knows not that all Hereticks pretend to the Spirit and Direction of God, though it's certain that in so doing they take the Name of God in vain: and it's little less then Blasphemy to bring God in, to patronize their sinful Actions: For,
1. God doth not graciously move the hearts of any to irregular and unlawful Actions; and though men are very prone to entitle Him to it, yet He utterly disclaims it, Jam. 1. 13, 14.