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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.
2. Let them please to consider; that those of their persuasion in this place, have acted with so much irregularity and profaneness, that should men of any other persuasion, whatsoever, have done the like, the same severity would have been used towards them. I truly profess unto them, that if any men, either of the Presbyterian, •• Congregational (or never so much of my) persuasion […] matters referring to Church-Discipline, should behave themselves as the […] in Boston, in New-England, have done, I think they would have deserved far greater punishment than any thing that to this day, hath been inflicted, upon them. Whether the sentence passed on them by the Churches, proceeding in the Name of the Lord Jesus, were only the abuse of an holy Ordinance; or a […] process according to Scripture Rule: the following Animadversions, […] unto those that are willing to weigh matters Impartially, in the balance of the Sanctuary. How vain is it for men, after they have received such Excommunicates into their communion, and them perceive that the World cries shame on them for it; and some of their own persuasion reprove them: in stead of abhorring themselves before God and the World; and purging out the old […] think they shall come off with saying, It was a defect! and who in this world […] without their failings and then by retaining such in their communion to persist in their scandal to this very day? To parallel the case of the Anabaptists in New England, with that of the Nonconformists in England, seems most unreasonable. Do the conforming Congregations there, cast men out of their fellowship for moral, scandalous evils? I doubt the godly Discipline which their […] confesseth was in the Primitive Church, and should be in theirs, is not found amongst them […] should, I believe the Nonconformists would be loth to receive any such into their Communion; which the New-England Anabaptists have done and have […] therein from year to year, and that after conviction, […] in their […] Narrative, they seek to palliate this offence, by […] Representation of things; their iniquity is marked before the […] and much So […] will never wash them clean. If then Dr. Stillingfleet, or […] shall go about to stir up Persecution against conscientious […] ⟨image ?⟩[…], and endeavour to justify it by the practice of Congregational […] in New-England:
2. Let them please to consider; that those of their perswasion in this place, have acted with so much irregularity and prophaneness, that should men of any other perswasion, whatsoever, have done the like, the same severity would have been used towards them. I truly profess unto them, that if any men, either of the Presbyterian, Congregational (or never so much of my) perswasion matters referring to Church-Discipline, should behave themselves as the in Boston, in New-England, have done, I think they would have deserved far greater punishment than any thing that to this day, hath been inflicted, upon them. Whether the sentence passed on them by the Churches, proceeding in the Name of the Lord Jesus, were only the abuse of an holy Ordinance; or a process according to Scripture Rule: the following Ammadversions, unto those that are willing to weigh matters Impartially, in the ballance of the Sanctuary. How vain is it for men, after they have received such Excommunicates into their communion, and them perceive that the World cries shame on them for it; and some of their own perswasion reprove them: in stead of abhorring themselves before God and the World; and purging out the old think they shall come off with saying, It was a defect! and who in this world without their failings and then by retaining such in their communion to persist in their scandal to this very day? To parallel the case of the Anabaptists in NewEngland, with that of the Nonconformists in England, seems most unreasonable. Do the conforming Congregations there, cast men out of their fellowship for moral, scandalous evils? I doubt the godly Discipline which their confesseth was in the Primitive Church, and should be in theirs, is not found amongst them should, I believe the Nonconformists would be loth to receive any such into their Communion; which the New-England Anabaptists have done and have therein from year to year, and that after conviction, in their Narrative, they seek to palliate this offence, by Representation of things; their iniquity is marked before the and much So will never wash them clean. If then Dr. Stillingfleet, or shall go about to stir up Persecution against conscientious