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A warning to the flocks against wolves in sheeps clothing. Or, A faithful advice,…A warning to the flocks against wolves in sheeps cloathing. Or, A faithful advice,…
A warning to the flocks against wolves in sheeps clothing. Or, A faithful advice, from several ministers of the Gospel, in and near Boston, unto the churches of New-England, relating to the dangers that may arise from impostors, pretending to be ministers. : With a brief history of some impostors, remarkably and seasonably detected written, by one of the ministers in Boston, to assert that advice, and prevent future mischiefs. : [Five lines of Scripture texts]A warning to the flocks against wolves in sheeps cloathing. Or, A faithful advice, from several ministers of the Gospel, in and near Boston, unto the churches of New-England, relating to the dangers that may arise from impostors, pretending to be ministers. : With a brief history of some impostors, remarkably and seasonably detected written, by one of the ministers in Boston, to assert that advice, and prevent future mischiefs. : [Five lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by B. Green and J. Allen, 1700
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Letter: Boston, 25 d. 10 m. 1699. A LETTER, Containing a Remarkable HISTORY, OF AN Impostor.
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.
They that filled the Town with other Impiety, by setting up this Filthy Dreamer, have now a Time to Admire the Favour of Heaven, (more than their own prudence) That there was not Set up a Congregation of Nicolaitans, in the Town, and that the Young People, have not been debauched into fearful Whoredoms, and Led away to the Unclean Spirit, like the Transylvanian Children, which danced after the Pied Piper, into the Cave of Hamelin.
They that fill'd the Town with other Impiety, by setting up this Filthy Dreamer, have now a Time to Admire the Favour of Heaven, (more than their own prudence) That there was not Set up a Congregation of Nicolaitans, in the Town, and that the Young People, have not been debauched into fearful Whoredomes, and Led away to the Unclean Spirit, like the Transylvanian Children, which danced after the Pied Piper, into the Cave of Hamelen.
But I have observed, That whereas grievous Times of Temptation are ever now and then, sent upon our Churches, if the Servants of the Lord Jesus Christ can, for a while bear to be buffeted by the Foolish Rage of those Times, and apply themselves to Humble Prayer, and Faith, before the Great Lord, who holds the Tempter in a Chain, and if instead of answering to Reviling with Reviling, they are only quickened unto more of Holiness, and Usefulness, the Times do not prove Days of Temptation, but mere Hours of Temptation; and Nubeculae cito transiturae, presently at an end. And so it was, in the Storm of Temptation, which by Satan, was now Raised in our Neighbourhood.
But I have observed, That whereas grievous Times of Temptation are ever now and then, sent upon our Churches, if the Servants of the Lord Jesus Christ can, for a while bear to be buffeted by the Foolish Rage of those Times, and apply themselves to Humble Prayer, and Faith, before the Great Lord, who holds the Tempter in a Chain, and if instead of answering to Reviling with Reviling, they are only quickened unto more of Holiness, and Usefulness, the Times do not prove Dayes of Temptation, but meer Hours of Temptation; and Nubeculae cito transiturae, presently at an end. And so it was, in the Storm of Temptation, which by Satan, was now Raised in our Neighbourhood.