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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 10
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2. Relating to John Farnum, we have him confessing guilty in some things, acknowledging a defect, but would not have it thought wilful, nor such as any Church in their imperfection may not easily fall into: well, they can make great faults little and small ones none at all. In sober earnest we may say of this act of theirs about Farnum, that if in nothing else they had been guilty, yet that is enough to render them low in the hearts of any good men, and a shame to Anabaptists themselves. A little in so dirty a matter is enough to be said: Therefore,
1. They say when he walked in fellowship with the Church, he was in reputation among them for a very godly man.] They should have left the word (very) out: though (in charity) they had hopes he might have the root of the matter in him; yet he was never judged eminent for his piety: it was long ere he could obtain Admission into the Church at Dorchester: & some discerning Christians ever suspected him to be (John Farnum) such an one as he after proved.
2. That he was deputed by them for a Deacon] and yet neither the present Teacher; nor any that have been added to the Church, these twenty years, either deputed, or thought him fit for that Office: and whereas there is but one surviving of the Founders of that Church, he professeth there is never a syllable of truth in that report.