Section 17
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SECT. XVII.
We have dismissed the charge, now comes a strong Argument of their Orthodoxy, a witness from Heaven, viz. their happy preservation in the […] of the Small Pox) Let it be remembered, that one of their persuasion did of it at Woburn (where John Russel lived, and should have observed it) and many of their Children. But be it so; their Society is small, and scattered from Dan to Beersheba. And who knows; but God might spare them in judgement, to harden them? These things are too high for us: only when God comes to chasten his People, those that are not chastened, may ask whither they are no Bastards.
We have dismissed the charge, now comes a strong Argument of their Orthodoxy, a witness from Heaven, viz. their happy preservation in the 〈…〉 of the Small Pox) Let it be remembred, that one of their perswasion did of it at Woborn (where John Russel lived, and should have observed it) and many of their Children. But be it so; their Society is small, and scattered from Dan to Beersheba. And who knows; but God might spare them in judgement, to harden them? These things are too high for us: only when God comes to chasten his People, those that are not chastened, may ask whither they are no Bastards.