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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
And because vis unita fortior, it is said in the Title Page to be written by themselves. We can't help expressing ourselves something surprised to see a Combination of so many able Heads and Pens, to convey so trivial Matters to the World, who would have believed it if they had not told us they were WRITTEN BY THEMSELVES? To track their Footsteps from Page to Page, would be little better than a Goose Chase. And indeed make the Answer as large a Bundle of Confusion as their Narrative and Defence. They are not vain Repetitions, but serve mighty well to answer the very christian Design of their Performance. Another pretty Tale we are entertained with. The Argument here is so pleasant we will give it the Reader in their own Words, by transcribing the whole Paragraph that contains it. What can be finer. Your mocking us so often in calling the Rector a Person of Distinction Our Thought was, that the Person to whom it was sent thinking it must have great Influence in coming from a Person of such Distinction. They say it came from a Person of Distinction, so we think it to be a Letter of Distinction To do as that Person of Distinction did Mr. Bull and Mr. Ashly and a Person of Distinction from Connecticut. Risum Teneatis Amici. | 'We would take the Liberty to close this Vindication, as the Sermon at the Ordination concluded with a humble Prayer.—That the GOD of Love would unite his Ministers & Churches in Love to Christ & one another, till we shall all come to that blessed World where no Offence shall arise, where there shall be no Jar, no Contention, but perfect Love, and Peace, and Charity shall reign for ever and ever; where that Prayer of our Saviour for his Church and People, will have its full and everlasting Accomplishment, That they may be all one, as thou Father art in me, and I in thee, that they may be one in us. AMEN.
And because vis unita fortior, it is said in the Title Page to be written by themselves. We can't help expressing ourselves something surprized to see a Combination of so many able Heads and Pens, to convey so trivial Matters to the World, who would have believed it if they had not told us they were WRITTEN BY THEMSELVES? To track their Footsteps from Page to Page, would be little better than a Goose Chase. And indeed make the Answer as large a Bundle of Confusion as their Narrative and Defence. They are not vain Repetitions, but serve mighty well to answer the very christian Design of their Performance. Another pretty Tale we are entertain'd with. The Argument here is so pleasant we will give it the Reader in their own Words, by transcribing the whole Paragraph that contains it. What can be finer. Your mocking us so often in calling the Rector a Person of Distinction Our Thought was, that the Person to whom it was sent thinking it must have great Influence in coming from a Person of such Distinction. They say it came from a Person of Distinction, so we think it to be a Letter of Distinction To do as that Person of Distinction did Mr. Bull and Mr. Ashly and a Person of Distinction from Connecticut. Risum Teneatis Amici. | 'We would take the Liberty to close this Vindication, as the Sermon at the Ordination concluded with a humble Prayer.—That the GOD of Love would unite his Ministers & Churches in Love to Christ & one another, till we shall all come to that blessed World where no Offence shall arise, where there shall be no Jarr, no Contention, but perfect Love, and Peace, and Charity shall reign for ever and ever; where that Prayer of our Saviour for his Church and People, will have its full and everlasting Accomplishment, That they may be all one, as thou Father art in me, and I in thee, that they may be one in us. AMEN.