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The way of Congregational churches cleared in two treatises. In the former, from the…
The way of Congregational churches cleared in two treatises. In the former, from the historical aspersions of Mr. Robert Baylie, in his book, called, A dissuasive from the errors of the time. In the latter, from some contradictions of Vindicæ Clavium : and from, some mis-constructions of learned Mr. Rutherford in his book entitled The due right of presbyteries. / By Mr. John Cotton, sometime preacher at Boston in Lincoln-shire, and now teacher of the Church at Boston, in New-England.The way of Congregational churches cleared in two treatises. In the former, from the historical aspersions of Mr. Robert Baylie, in his book, called, A disswasive from the errors of the time. In the latter, from some contradictions of Vindicæ Clavium : and from, some mis-constructions of learned Mr. Rutherford in his book intituled The due right of presbyteries. / By Mr. John Cotton, sometime preacher at Boston in Lincoln-shire, and now teacher of the Church at Boston, in New-England.
London: printed by Matthew Simmons for John Bellamie, 1648
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SECT. V. Of the pretended danger of the New-English way unto the world, after Cotton and others closing with it.
But to proceed, why should the Dissuader conceive, That our coming over into these parts, and joining with these American Churches, should cause this New-way (as he calleth it) to begin to grow dangerous to the rest of the world?
But to proceed, why should the Disswader conceive, That our coming over into these parts, and joyning with these American Churches, should cause this New-way (as he calleth it) to begin to grow dangerous to the rest of the world?
To which world (I pray you) hath this way grown dangerous? to the Christian world? or to the Antichristian world? or to the Pagan world?
The Pagan world of Indians here will acknowledge our sitting down by them, hath prevented the danger either of their dissolution or servitude. For the Indians in these parts being by the hand of God swept away (many multitudes of them) by the Plague, the manner of the Neighbour-Indians is either to destroy the weaker Countries, or to make them Tributary: which danger ready to fall upon their heads in these parts, the coming of the English hither prevented. And of late (through the grace of Christ) one of our fellow-Elders, Mr. Eliot, Teacher of Rocksbury, having gotten the knowledge of the Indian language preacheth to them every week one week to one Congregation on the fourth day, to the other on the sixth the week following. And to him they willingly give ear, and reform their vicious living according to his Doctrine; and some of them offer themselves to be trained up in English Families, and in our Schools: and there be of them that give good hope of coming on to the acknowledgement of the grace of Christ. To them therefore our way is not dangerous.