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Show The Epi!He tothe Reader. ~-;,;;,;fion h~f4id to hold no analogie.ret with IJOt 1hnfiourtappr" ~i les rome me"enners have got through that 71fu, . wrtqa ,anad w to a>nJ't icipat:JeJ , o·>r . ·li ( f · · h , JattSJ'~ ' tt mtg t I'Je ) ~lo uar , . t$.!1;.,:rMmourers for a larger Narratlon. . "'~'" Th , 1 Jiuejti on-s or Church-government, and C~brch:do~ena'nt,don; 6y Jome _El~ers ~f N. £. tf~y have had. with Jeconds offr equen,t tl'fttmatzons, that wee hold·wltll-the Chutahct <>£New_: England. . . :z., The Apologet.icall~arrattonlheyhavehad, wtth our genera!i apfrobarrim oftt. . • M' Cotton of the Keys of the Kxngd?me o~ hcavqg they have had_, w~th our ~rethrens Epiflle to tt, haw farre they a~ prove zt • · · . · : · 4• The Reafons of tbe Jlilentrng Brethren are.i!N Print. · 5, Jriee have been en formed thilt 't~~Je our Breth~n fot>- . merlj'bf"VC temi~red.th~mfeh:e~., thll~ tn cAfe they mig/it ,!Je put ilm 11 Com~ittce,or lrke m/Je-t;p_ofbut~fo; f~tcb -awor~, they would b1·ing tn the whole frame Oftthetr ;udgemen1S m -a body, 'Riit~ thezr grounds ami reafo'·~~- . . 6. '1'htlt now very lately thf} . .gaverm Je~n . Prorofiuatls to /;e'llifi:uj]'ed, with.promife" of more. But ner ~1m. of them 111as dehated •• which wee a/Jedge ,rather to v mdmzte our [elves of that particular €barge, &hen to h1ame men whofe tea[o·ns wee/mow not·. ' . '- ·•. . . , '"f. With much adoe1¥eebave pref-mted you w:tb. a fuller · d'eclaration of all our way,according to the7 Scnpt~res, in-this learned,yet modeft '(reatift o( THE 'A AY OF fHE CHURCHES OF CHR!S!Ti .lN N~vv-ENGLAND , &r. Written and fent over by M'. Cotton. t.A_nd wu doe in :this Epiflle mtifte our .tjJent<tbereunfo,Javmg th~t w~e dot 'not'yet fully c/afe with 'fame ~xprtftons paffi~ t.n the B:ook 'J,e'ore rome ofwbich wee mmdld 1t to note a tR ~ e . ' ~· 1' · - · · .. Margm. Mar$in,_. This we could no~ ~.ut f•J 11n.d d&(p;tce tanti au, tb?m) or,wee could »4t aj]ert the JJooke. Jf ,Aii thingJ In tbtS Treatife, at no~ printr,d, ¢oe not a~Jmer, ptmlfUA{/y word for WO~c4 tO t}~ prfl 'f!'Yf tten. (:opie; Jet the 'IC'lJtrend .){iithour, an~the candia Reader pardon WJ, becauft wee pad not the faucfl Co.ptr, n~r Jmew wee, tiJ/ the J!oo!r was neer done, that there war a.better to beJuul. IJOr to thiuiay yet ever fo w. it. · · . · ·.~ "Th~refore wee were forced tofhift with th.is ,Jo .u to keep the m~nd of the Authour, make it conilare fibi, and by an Interpretative leave in his Dbfence, not on ely to doe as TPee -gould !Je done hy, l;ut alfo a~ he ·h~mfolfo_ would have dol'J~ (wee are confident) if he had been in our (a{e, qr prefent here. _ L eaft ~ny fhould imagin~, .th-:t every ~h ing in the :Kc;yes ?ot~.not fit all the •wards tn thzs :T.reatift to anbaire wee #it( here l'nfert .JI.f,. CottGns ·own words, in hit L'mer tom'inJ.[rom b'im in 'N e1v- ~ngrland to our bands in ·the ve.,. ~ ntcfe ofti~e, TPhi/es this ep.i{lfe lay under the,pr1fe; v.iz • . lfv.ou tbmlc the Dx:a~ght of 1Ch_Uil,cH-Dz·sqp1; 1NE, "wh1c~ was fcnt over m y0ur Shrp, va.rieth from t·hat cc~ttbePovvr.a OF THE KEK£s,fcntovcrthefearc cc after ;·you may have ·{ome occalion fo to conceive ~'fro'll .lome diff~.rencre of e~preffion ~n LoG:rCI\•LL -1~,T.'l('RM.Es, hl}t not a jote .in any DoCTJNNE OF .Q1- " .v·INlTI•E,or CHUR.CH-:P&AC\I'IS·E· So M•. C0tton ,;11 bit :Letter to -M•. R. M. · 7J iveiff r>.'fjtaions fo;flllr!J laid againft •the IJ'11i~ti"»g ~ th'i!. ~~fo!,'(~Q 1he{ailttinJ. of the .&utfi()ur.) ~0me'W"bL'I't'ef,, 1re ~w f.nfwer.edA~ the late feafon .of printing lit. Otb.~rs, ·~Y theocce.f!itie ofthem, that.cunftrientioufly and ~a~~;t!jl(/y·cr~ out .for Information, Others, b,y the £o.repn~ tng of the ·Keyes, to Qpen-the fuU mincle and whole . . - fth~re |
