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A letter to the author of the pamphlet called An answer [sic] to the…A letter to the author of the pamphlet called An answeer [sic] to the…
A letter to the author of the pamphlet called An answer [sic] to the Hampshire narrative. : [Three lines from Proverbs]A letter to the author of the pamphlet called An answeer [sic] to the Hampshire narrative. : [Three lines from Proverbs]
Boston: : s.n., Printed in the year 1737
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We don't mention these Passages of these Gentlemen's Testimonies, as containing the whole Errors that were testified against Mr. Breck, but that they might be compared with the above mentioned Words of Mr. B—. You allow the Testimonies to be good, and say you improved them as such: But if so, and their Testimonies, even as to the Main, ben't false, what shall we make of Mr. Breck's asserting that he can truly say that be never did believe that Faith was not necessary to Salvation, and that he never had a Thought that the Heathen doing what they could would entitle 'em to Salvation; far be it from me to imagine any such Thing! Shall we charitably think that Mr. Breck has forgot all this? Certainly this at least might well make us cautious in proceeding, and desire to have some thorough Evidence of an Alteration in him!
We don't mention these Passages of these Gentlemen's Testimonies, as containing the whole Errors that were testified against Mr. Breck, but that they might be compared with the above mentioned Words of Mr. B—. You allow the Testimonies to be good, and say you improved them as such: But if so, and their Testimonies, even as to the Main, ben't false, what shall we make of Mr. Breck's asserting that he can truly say that be never did believe that Faith was not necessary to Salvation, and that he never had a Thought that the Heathen doing what they could would entitle 'em to Salvation; far be it from me to imagine any such Thing! Shall we charitably think that Mr. Breck has forgot all this? Certainly this at least might well make us cautious inproceeding, and desire to have some thorough Evidence of an Alteration in him!
You say, Page 92, if it be said there should be a Time of Probation; this there was in his Case: For he had been preaching at Springfield, after he lest Connecticut, more than a Year and an Half, and approved himself orthodox, ⟨p. 80⟩by the Tenor of his Conversation and Preaching there. In this you are mistaken, for he still persisted in some of the sam-erroneous Opinions; and particularly that, that the Heathen might he saved without Faith in Christ, Nar. Page 7, 8. He told Mr. Clap that he dissented from the Westminster Confession of Faith, tho' in so little a while after, when he thought it needful to serve his Turn, he on a very strict Examination (as you say it was) consents to that same Confession of Faith, as you have declared, Page 86, 87. And he told one of us, viz Mr. Hopkins, that he did not depart from any thing that ever he had preached at Windham; as is related Page 15 of the Narrative: And this he held till he see it would not do to hold it any longer, and then at last pretends that he has received better Light than he had at Windham.