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The declaration, of the gentlemen, merchants, and inhabitants of Boston, and the country adjacent.…The declaration, of the gentlemen, merchants, and inhabitants of Boston, and the countrey adjacent.…
The declaration, of the gentlemen, merchants, and inhabitants of Boston, and the country adjacent. April 18th. 1689.The declaration, of the gentlemen, merchants, and inhabitants of Boston, and the countrey adjacent. April 18th. 1689.
Boston: printed by Samuel Green, 1689
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THE Declaration, Of the Gentlemen, Merchants, and Inhabitants of BOSTON, and the Country Adjacent. April 18th. 1689.
THE Declaration, Of the Gentlemen, Merchants, and Inhabitants of BOSTON, and the Countrey Adjacent. April 18th. 1689.
WE have seen more than a decad of years rolled away, since the English World had the Discovery of an horrid Popish Plot; wherein the bloody […] of Rome had in their Design and Prospect no less than the extinction of the Protestant Religion: which mighty Work they called the utter subduing of a Pestilent Heresy: wherein (they said) there never were such hopes of Success since the Death of Queen Mary as now in our days. And we were of all Men the most insensible, if we should apprehend a Country so remarkable for the true Profession and pure Exercise of the Protestant Religion as New-England is, wholly unconcerned in the Infandous Plot, to crush and break a Country so entirely and signally made up of Reformed Churches, and at length to involve it in the miseries of an utter Extirpation: must needs carry even a Supererogation of merit with it, among such as were intoxicated with a Bigotry inspired into them by the great Scarlet Whore.
WEE have seen more than a decad of years rolled away, since the English World had the Discovery of an horrid Popish Plot; wherein the bloody 〈…〉 of Rome had in their Design and Prospect no less than the extinction of the Protestant Religion: which mighty Work they called the utter subduing of a Pestilent Heresie: wherein (they said) there never were such hopes of Success since the Death of Queen Mary as now in our dayes. And we were of all Men the most insensible, if we should apprehend a Countrey so remarkable for the true Profession and pure Exercise of the Protestant Religion as New-England is, wholly unconcerned in the Infandous Plot, to crush and break a Countrey so intirely and signally made up of Reformed Churches, and at length to involve it in the miseries of an utter Extirpation: must needs carry even a Supererogation of merit with it, among such as were intoxicated with a Bigotry inspired into them by the great Scarlet Whore.