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Little flocks guarded against grievous wolves. An address unto those parts of New-England which…
Little flocks guarded against grievous wolves. An address unto those parts of New-England which are most exposed unto assaults, from the modern teachers of the misled Quakers. : In a letter, which impartially discovers the manifold heresies and blasphemies, and the strong delusions of even the most refined Quakerism; and thereupon demonstrates the truth of those principles and assertions, which are most opposite thereunto. : With just reflections upon the extreme ignorance and wickedness, of George Keith, who is the seducer that now most ravines upon the churches in this wilderness. / Written by Cotton Mather. ; A character of the ring-leaders among the Quakers. ; [Four lines from Timothy]Little flocks guarded against grievous wolves. An address unto those parts of New-England which are most exposed unto assaults, from the modern teachers of the misled Quakers. : In a letter, which impartially discovers the manifold haeresies and blasphemies, and the strong delusions of even the most refined Quakerism; and thereupon demonstrates the truth of those principles and assertions, which are most opposite thereunto. : With just reflections upon the extream ignorance and wickedness, of George Keith, who is the seducer that now most ravines upon the churches in this wilderness. / Written by Cotton Mather. ; A character of the ring-leaders among the Quakers. ; [Four lines from Timothy]
Boston: printed by Benjamin Harris, 1691
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.
QUAKERISM DISPLAYED AND GEORGE KEITH DETECTED; IN A LETTER, Addressed unto those parts of New-England, which are most in danger of being thereby SEDUCED.
QVAKERISM DISPLAY'D AND GEORGE KEITH DETECTED; IN A LETTER, Addressed unto those parts of New-England, which are most in danger of being thereby SEDUCED.
IT gives me no little Exercise, MY NEIGHBOURS, when I see Quakerism, that great Choakweed of the Christian and Protestant Religion, taking Root in the Borders of a Country famous for that Holy Religion; and unto you, doubtless it is not without prodigy, that although this Country was planted more than Twenty Years before the first Quaker that ever we could bear of, appeared in the World, yet there should be some scores of Quakers in […] ⟨image ?⟩Corners of the Country. But we know, That where God has his Church, there will be something else! Let me give you the Reverend Baxters opinion of it, expressed in his own words, which are, Why is George Keith and his other Quaker from Pennsylvania now assaulting the Churches in New-England? T•e Hunter knows, there is the […]? And allow me that fault […] Love, to do something that may help to […] the Game of the […], who has Quakers […] the S•tte•s, by which Men are catched […] him Upon a v•ry exact and sincere Self-•••mination, I cannot charge my self with any •alice or Hatred against the poor people that •he Seduced into the strong Delusions of that […]; I am utterly against vexing and creep••• of them w•th punishments on their Estates […] Bodies for their Consciences; I would not […]. An Admirer of the Light with worse age, than an Ancient Jewish History tells us, he Patriarch Abraham was (tho hardly) convinced, That a worshipper of the Fire, coming into his House, was to meet withal; I look upon many of them as fair conditioned men, and persons of a Temper which we are to reat with Civility and Obligation; I think, […] should labour to Overcome them with good, with Prayer for them, with pity to them; and for my own part, I must briefly say, Let that Quaker of them all, that has most Abused me and Reviled me, make me to understand wherein I may […] him any real kindness, and if I do it not, let