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Decennium luctuosum An history of remarkable occurrences, in the long war, which New-England hath…
Decennium luctuosum An history of remarkable occurrences, in the long war, which New-England hath had with the Indian salvages, from the year, 1688. To the year 1698. Faithfully composed and improved. [One line of quotation in Latin]
printed by B. Green for Samuel Phillips, 1699
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Excludes from the Church of Christ, Those who are not Infallible, in Discerning the Hearts of other men. Whereas now in ⟨p. 168⟩Spite of all their Infallibility, such Friends as Keith (and Leeds) whom they once admired, profess that they never in their Hearts Believed, as the Common Foxian Quakers do; and Quakerism Suffers from none in the world more than these. But that I may a little Suggest unto you, certain Methods of Encountering those Adversaries of your Faith, which go about, seeking whom they may deceive, and whom I do here offer to prove as horrid Idolaters, as even those that worshipped the Rats of Egypt, if it be fairly demanded of me, I will first Recite unto you, certain passages, of a Discourse, which a Minister of Boston, had with a very Busy and Noisy Teacher among the Quakers, (and another of the Friends,) in his Return from his Visitation unto some of our Northern Towns, where the Giddy People, had cried him up for a None-Such.
Excludes from the Church of Christ, Those who are not Infallible, in Discerning the Hearts of other men. Whereas now in ⟨p. 168⟩Spite of all their Infallibility, such Friends as Keith (and Leeds) whom they once admired, profess that they never in their Hearts Believed, as the Common Foxian Quakers do; and Quakerism Suffers from none in the world more than these. But that I may a little Suggest unto you, certain Methods of Encountring those Adversaries of your Faith, which go about, seeking whom they may deceive, and whom I do here offer to prove as horrid Idolaters, as even those that worshipp'd the Rats of Egypt, if it be fairly demanded of me, I will first Recite unto you, certain passages, of a Discourse, which a Minister of Boston, had with a very Busy and Noisy Teacher among the Quakers, (and another of the Friends,) in his Return from his Visitation unto some of our Northern Towns, where the Giddy People, had cry'd him up for a None-Such.
Quaker. We are come to give thee a Friendly Visit.