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A66107	Ne sutor ultra crepidam, or, Brief animadversions upon the New-England Anabaptists late fallacious narrative wherein the notorious mistakes and falshoods [sic] by them published are detected / by Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston in New England.	Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707.; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.	1681 (1681)	Wing W2288; ESTC R33664	28,078	36

the Brethren when they rightly understand things will think that the Magistrate should see little Foxes spoiling them and should look on all the while as one no way concerned As for those of the Antip●●dobaptistical perswasion which differ from us only in that particular I would speak to them as unto Brethren whom their Error for so I believe it is notwithstanding I love and would b●ar with and exercise the same indulgence and compassion towards them as I would have others do to me who feel my self compassed with infirmities I have been a poor labourer in the Lords Vineyard in this place upwards of twenty years and it is more than I know if in all that time any of those that scruple Infant-Baptisme have met with molestation from the Magistrate meerly on the account of their Opinion I would therefore intreat the Brethren and others of their perswasion who may be of a Christian and moderate spirit that have subscribed the Epistle seriously to consider 1. That the place may sometimes make a great alteration as to indulgence to be expected It is evident that that Toleration is in one place not only lawful but a necessary duty which in another place would be destructive and the expectation of it irrational That which is needful to ballast a great ship will sink a small boat If a considerable number of Antipaedobaptists should as our Fathers here did obtain Liberty from the State to transport themselves and families into a wast American wilderness that so they might be a peculiar People by themselves practising all and only the institutions of Christ if now Pado-Baptists should come after them and intrude themselves upon them and when they cast men out of their society for moral Scandals entertain them Surely they would desire such persons either to walk orderly with them or to return to the place from whence they came And if they would do neither they would think that such Pado-Baptists were blame-worthy let them th●n do as they would be done by and deal by us as they would have us to deal by them were they in our case and we in theirs 2. Let them please to consider that those of their perswasion in this place have acted with so much irregularity and prophaneness that should men of any other perswasion whatsoever have done the like the same severity would have been used towards them I truly profess unto them that if any men either of the Presbyterian or Congregational or never so much of my perswasion in matters referring to Church-Discipline should behave themselves as the Anabaptists in Boston in New-England have done I think they would have deserved far greater punishment than any thing that to this day hath been inflicted upon them Whether the sentence pass●d on them by the Churches proceeding in the Name of the Lord Jesus were only the abuse of an holy Ordinance or a righteous process according to Scripture Rule the following Animadversions will discover unto those that are willing to weigh matters impartially in the ballance of the Sanctuary How vain is it for men after they have received such Excommunicates into their communion and then perceive that the World cries shame on them for it and some of their own perswasion reprove them in stead of abhorring themselves before God and the World and purging out the old leven to think they shall come off with saying It was a defect and who in this world are without their failings and then by retaining such in their communion to persist in their scandal to this very day To parallel the case of the Anabaptists in New-England with that of the Nonconformisis in England seems most unreasonable Do the conforming Congregations there cast men out of their fellowship for moral scandalous evils I doubt the godly Discipline which their Liturgy confesseth was in the Primitive Church and should be in theirs is not found amongst them or if they should I believe the Noncon●ormists would be loth to receive any such into their Communion which the New-England Anabaptists have done and have persisted therein from year to year and that after conviction And although in their d●luding Narrative they seek to palliate this offence by a fallacious Repres●ntation of things their iniquity is marked before the Lord Nitre and much Sope will never wash them cl●an If then Dr. Stillingfleet or any other shall go about to stir up Persecution against conscientious Nonconformists in England and endeavour to justifie it by the practice of Congregational Men in New-England we see not that any real advantage hath been given only taken from proceedings here The Author of the Book called The Mischief of Impositions hath given a fair and rational answer to the Doctor as to this particular They say those of the Congregational way in England plead for Anabaptists liberty as for their own That they plead for liberty and indulgence to be extended towards those that differ from them only in that point of Paedo-Baptisme I believe when I was in England I did so my self and if I were their now I would do so again but that they should plead for liberty unto such practices as our Anabaptists have been guilty of is not easie to believe or if they do it is because such Narrators as these Animadverted upon have by untrue Relations misguided them into undue Apprehensions Nay I am fully convinced that those of their own way if of serious and gracious Spirits when once they are possessed with a true Relation of things concerning them will see cause to condemn New-England less and those their Friends more than at first they were aware of How did they bear the World in hand that the Churches here did Excommunicate them for nothing but their Opinion in scrupling Paedobaptisme But that therein they have dealt most untruely and injuriously the subsequent Answer to their Narrative hath made apparent from the Church-Recodrs concerning those matters Finally let me intreat the Brethren to believe that some of us would shew as much indulgence unto truly tender Consciences as themselves It is not so long since our own Necks bled under an intolerable yoke of Imposition upon Conscience as that we should forget what it is to be so dealt with or exercise that severity towards any that we have our selves complained of in others But the Brethren will readily own that some men have pretended Conscience when pride perverseness in the will have been at the bottom They will also confess that a meer pretence of Conscience is not enough to bear men out in an evil practice All the difficulty is in discerning the one of these from the other Blessed Mr. Burrou●hs in his excel'ent Irenicum hath laid down Rules concerning this And if that which he saith pag. 32. be sound Doctrine as undoubtedly it is some of our Anabaptists have not such characters of a tendor Consc●ence up●n them as were to be desired If men will call unjustifiable Practic●s by the name of