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Show The Tejlimo11ies alledged from ·------- - tO Civility, and to the knowledge ~four Religion' by faire meanes, are not pertinent to the prefent controvedie to rel~te. I~ hath been an Article of the Covenant between fuch In~wu as have fubmitted to our Government, that they !hall fubmtt to the ten Commandemems, which they thought re~fonable. Som~ of their SacbimJ young children are brought up wuh us, and tratned up to kno.wledge. Such of them as ~orne to our Houfes arded with curtelie, and care taken often to mftrua them, as farre , yea further then they are greatly willing to heare. Some of them of lace, frequent our markets, to get mony, by felling Fifh, Baskets, whortleberries, ~ramberries, which taketh them off from fol!le idleneffe; Some Engli{h arc ftndious of the Indian Language, f? elealc with them .in their owne Tongue. Of latefome of our Mt· nillers have preached to a Congregation of them, whil'ft others at firft interpreted what was preached : but fince one of oor Minifters prcachcth to them in their ?wne Language. The ot~er day whil'll I w.u at the Colledge wtth other Elders, an Irnl•an fro~ Plimmouth fide, (an hopefuU youth) wa1 received into fome employment in the Colledge, that he might be trained up to knowledge for the. help of his Count~y-men. But no _violent courfeta.ken with them at all, to conflrame them to the Faab, or Profeffion of Chri!!ianity. The time is haftning( we hope) ~vhe_n all the vials of Gods wrath will be poured out on the Anuchn· flian State: and then we looke for the fulnelfe of the Gentilet 10 come in, and with theJewet, multitudes of Pagani. But till the f:.ven plagues of the feven Angels be fulfilled, wee cannot eafily hope- for the entrance of any New multitudes of men into roe Church according to the word of the Lcrd, Rev. 'S· 8. No man (!hat is, nom an out of the Temple, no Pagan) was able to cnlet into the Temple, rill the feven plagues of the (even Angels wercful· filled. "-ht But to recurne to our Vifcu!Jer, he fpeaketh at randome, "'"':' intimateth, that We walk,e not by Rule but partially, aJ if we permJttel not the like liberty of ntorfhip to o11r Co>mtry·men, nor tot be Frencb, Dutch, Spanifh, Perlians, Turkes, ]ewes, which 'll'eedoe to theln-dians. · For weNeuher confirainethem to worfhip God wirhus, nor r~lhaine them from y,:orfhipp!ng God in their owne way. PIYf:;;; .Ancient and l.ste writers a'ifr,ujf'ed. 1•r~t and Jewe~,come not amongil: us: thofe of other Nations of Europe, when they doe come amongll us , their manner of W orfbip is not taken notice of amongft us. Our Country-men worfbip God with us for the moft part, if fome of them come not to our Affemblies by reafon of the diftance of their dwdlings from m, they have Vbercy of publick prayer and preaching of the word aamongft themfelves, by fuch as themfelves choofe, without dillurbance. Difcuffer. 1he Anfwerer addethafimher Anfwer to Tertullian, for wbereat Terlullian had [aid, that one mant Religion doth neither hurt, nor profit another: the Anfwerer faith , it mt<JI be tmderjlood of private Wor(bip, or of Religion prnftjfod in private. Otherwife a fal(e Religion profeJJedin publicfv by the c..Membm of the Church, or byfuch M have given tbtir N;met to Ch.rifl , will be the mine and V efo!ation of the ChurcbeJ, Rev. z. Whereto I Anfwer, 1 . 1hofo tbJt are M<mbm of tlu Church, and tbofo .that have given tbeir nanm to Chrij!, are all o11e: the dijlin/Jion ther•fore ·u unfound. D•fender. · TheDi[cuffir mull excufe me, though I doe not taku th~m for all one. For men of yea res muf\ give up their names to ~hrt~, before they can be received Members into the Church, a,s tsevtd~nt, Ifai•h )6· 6, 7· Therefc~re they are not all one : the one precedeth the other. Dilcuffor. I an[RJer {econdly, tbJt Tertullian doth no I thtre JPu~ of ptivate, but of publicft worfhip, ulld Religion, V,fmdcr. 1mullian1 (pcech may poffibly be meant of eich~r pu\Jlic~ O< private Bul a• I [rid, to make the fpeech t rue , " m.uft either ba unJerllood of private, or if ol publick profdlion of R.eli~lon, it mufr be underliood not of Chrilli•n, b:tr of P~gan: and of Pagan during the time of Gods P.1ti.ence, an~ their ignorance. Bur after God revealed rhe Trmh of the GofpeiR. eligion to them, it was not f•fe to continue a publick Profeffion ofl'agan-Religion: for afcer the White-Hurfe hath revealed, th~ Go!pel a Red and Black, and pale-horfe follow, to avenge ' ' ~ |