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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 by them published, are detected. / By Samuel Willard teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Eight lines of Scripture texts]Ne sutor ultra crepidam. Or Brief animadversions upon the New-England Anabaptists late fallacious narrative; wherein the notorious mistakes and falshoods by them published, are detected. / By Samuel Willard teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Eight lines of Scripture texts]
printed by S. Green, 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 […] Infant-[…], have met with molestation from the Magistrate merely ⟨image ?⟩on the account of their Opinion. I would there […] others of their persuasion, who may be of a Christian and moderate-spirit […] 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 〈…〉 Infant-〈…〉, have met with molestation from the Magistrate meerly ⟨image ?⟩on the account of their Opinion. I would there 〈…〉 others of their perswasion, who may be of a Christian and moderate-spirit 〈…〉 have subscribed the Epistle, seriously to consider;
1. That the place may sometimes make a great alteration, as to […] 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 […] the expectation of it irrational. That which is needful to ballast a great […] 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 […] Baptists should come after them, and intrude themselves upon them, and […] they cast men out of their society for moral Scandals, entertain them […] 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 Paedo-Baptists were blame-worthy: let them then 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.