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An answer to some cases of conscience respecting the country. By Solomon Stoddard, A.M.…
An answer to some cases of conscience respecting the country. By Solomon Stoddard, A.M. Pastor in Northampton.
printed by B. Green, 1722
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An ANSWER TO SOME Cases of Conscience Respecting the COUNTRY.
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.
A. IT must needs be so: It is a Sign of Contention, and a Cause of Contention. Moses complains of it, Deut. 1.12. How can I •y self alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? And it occasions a great deal of Expense: and great Loss of Time. It is in this case generally as it is in War, that one party, if not both, are to blame, 1 Cor. 6.6.
A. IT must needs be so: It is a Sign of Contention, and a Cause of Contention. Moses complains of it, Deut. 1.12. How can I •y self alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? And it occasions a great deal of Expence: and great Loss of Time. It is in this case generally as it is in War, that one party, if not both, are to blame, 1 Cor. 6.6.
1. SOMETIMES it rises from the Injustice or Unmercifulness of the Plaintiff. The King of the Ammonites challenged what was not his due, Judg. 12.12. And the Servant did very ill, that •ook his fellow servant by the throat for a small debt, Mat. 18.28.