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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.
3. They have received such as have (justly) for moral evils been cast out of other Churches; add, and never given Christian satisfaction. Here he endeavours a salvo. The persons instanced are Thomas Foster, and John Farnham; the former sometimes of the Church at Billerica the other of the second gathered Church in Boston. He acknowledgeth they have received them, but on just reasons, or (at worst) not very irregularly. Let the Records of these Churches be compared with this Narrative, and see if the Anabaptists have not good skill in painting, and putting a fair face on a foul matter.
3. They have received such as have (justly) for moral evils been cast out of other Churches; adde, and never given Christian satisfaction. Here he endeavours a salvo. The persons instanced are Thomas Foster, and John Farnham; the former sometimes of the Church at Billerica the other of the second gathered Church in Boston. He acknowledgeth they have received them, but on just reasons, or (at worst) not very irregularly. Let the Records of these Churches be compared with this Narrative, and see if the Anabaptists have not good skill in painting, and putting a fair face on a foul matter.
1. For Thomas Foster, let it be observed.
1. That he was not only a Member of the Church of Billerica, but of the Foundation, and at their gathering was full, free, and forward in owning Infant Baptism to be an Ordinance of Christs Institution: and if he judged himself (that notwithstanding) to have been then a true Christian he ought to have extended more charity (then his after expressions showed) to the Church still remaining of the same persuasion.
1. That he was not only a Member of the Church of Billerica, but of the Foundation, and at their gathering was full, free, and forward in owning Infant Baptisme to be an Ordinance of Christs Institution: and if he judged himself (that notwithstanding) to have been then a true Christian he ought to have extended more charity (then his after expressions shewed) to the Church still remaining of the same perswasion.