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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
Brief Animadversions Upon the New England Anabaptists late Narrativ… › Section 6
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But yet there are two things wherein they are to be blamed […] lay scandal to them; though just, yet it is unjustly done. viz.
But yet there are two things wherein they are to be blamed 〈…〉 lay scandal to them; though just, yet it is unjustly done. viz.
1. The frame of spirit they do it with, they are rugged […] truly this becomes not men who profess a Spirit of Meekness: […] yet sometimes the Gospel calls Christians to withstand Seducers […] the face; to characterize some men in their proper colours, and […] earnestly with them for the Truth: yea, experience tells us […] such a rough thing as a New-England Anabaptist is not to be handle] ever tenderly: the spirit which they have at all times discovered under the greatest disadvantages (and God grant that they may never have more advantage over us) easily tells us what they would have been, if circumstanced as those whom they accuse.
1. The frame of spirit they do it with, they are rugged 〈…〉 truly this becomes not men who profess a Spirit of Meekness: 〈…〉 yet sometimes the Gospel calls Christians to withstand Seducers 〈…〉 the face; to characterize some men in their proper colours, and 〈…〉 earnestly with them for the Truth: yea, experience tells us 〈…〉 such a rough thing as a New-England Anabaptist is not to be handle] ever tenderly: the spirit which they have at all times discovered under the greatest disadvantages (and God grant that they may never have more advantage over us) easily tells us what they would have been, if circumstanced as those whom they accuse.