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Decennium luctuosum. An history of remarkable occurrences, in the long war, which New-England hath…
Decennium luctuosum. An history of remarkable occurrences, in the long war, which New-England hath had with the Indian savages, from the year, 1688. To the year 1698. / Faithfully composed and improved. ; [One line of quotation in Latin]
printed by B. Green for Samuel Phillips, 1699
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.
Quaker. Therefore! Therefore! Argo, Argo! Why, Dost thou think, Religion is to be proved by thy Therefore's, by thy Argo's?
Minister. Friend, I perceive, the word, Therefore, is a very dead doing sort of a Word to ye. I'll dismiss this Terrible Word. I'll only say, The Reason, why none could forbid Believers to be Baptised with Water, was merely Because Jesus Christ Commanded it.
Minister. Friend, I perceive, the word, Therefore, is a very dead doing sort of a Word to yee. I'le dismiss this Terrible Word. I'le only say, The Reason, why none could forbid Believers to be Baptised with Water, was meerly Because Jesus Christ Commanded it.
Quaker. BECAUSE; Why, the word, Because is as bad as the word, Therefore.
Minister. [Smiling.] It may be so. But in the mean time, you are wonderfully unreasonable! I say, why could none forbid Water, for the Faithful to be Baptised.