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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.
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.
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.