N03404:53
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.
If any one has been informed that that which his Neighbour is laying up for his Food or Drink, is deadly Poison, and is sensible that his Neighbour is wholly ignorant of it, and upon this, out of Concern for the Life of his Neighbour, makes some Enquiry, and upon finding of it to be so indeed, as a Neighbour and christian Brother, gives him Notice of it, is he therefore chargeable with Tyranny and Usurpation, in invading his Brother's Right, that he has to judge & choose for himself, with respect to his own Meat and Drink, and taking it into his own Hands, to judge for him, before he referred it to him? Does not the Situation of Christians that dwell near one to another, whereby they have Opportunity to discern the Danger of each Other's Circumstances, and to inform one another, oblige 'em to such Acts of Kindness as these? And whether we, by our Office, have any proper Authority out of the Limits of our own Congregations or no, yet we suppose, no Christians, of any Mode of Discipline will deny, but that by Virtue of our being Officers in Christ's visible Kingdom, and set apart and devoted to be Ministers of his holy Religion, we are under peculiar Obligations to seek the Advancement of his Honour and Glory, and to prevent whatever tends to overthrow it every where, as we have Opportunity in those Ways that imply no Exercise of Authority.
If any one has been informed that that which his Neighbour is laying up for his Food or Drink, is deadly Poison, and is sensible that his Neighbour is wholly ignorant of it, and upon this, out of Concern for the Life of his Neighbour, makes some Enquiry, and upon finding of it to be so indeed, as a Neighbour and christian Brother, gives him Notice of it, is he therefore chargeable with Tyranny and Usurpation, in invading his Brother's Right, that he has to judge & chuse for himself, with respect to his own Meat and Drink, and taking it into his own Hands, to judge for him, before he referred it to him? Does not the Situation of Christians that dwell near one to another, whereby they have Opportunity to discern the Danger of each Other's Circumstances, and to inform one another, oblige 'em to such Acts of Kindness as these? And whether we, by our Office, have any proper Authority out of the Limits of our own Congregations or no, yet we suppose, no Christians, of any Mode of Discipline will deny, but that by Vertue of our being Officers in Christ's visible Kingdom, and set apart and devoted to be Ministers of his holy Religion, we are under peculiar Obligations to seek the Advancement of his Honour and Glory, and to prevent whatever tends to overthrow it every where, as we have Opportunity in those Ways that imply no Exercise of Authority.