An Historical Discourse On the Civil And Religious Affairs of the Colony of Rhod
An Historical Discourse On the Civil And Religious Affairs of the Colony of Rhod
John Callender
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" But as he goes on, "they carried t he matter on to a very perilous door, opened to many errors and evils, yea, to threaten a subversion of the 80 HISTORICAL DISCOURSE. peaceable order in government. " But they deny and disclaim the consequences fixed on them, and justify their own opinion and conduct, and charge the other party with as fatal and mischievous con- sequences, and a conduct arbitrary and oppressive. Besides the differences about those points, for which these people were charged w...ith Antinomian- ism, what was called Familisin was, perhaps, not a little offensive. Nay, their differences in opinion were worked up to almost a state quarrel at the last, as Arminianism had been in Holland, and Episcopacy was in England afterwards, and as the Reformation still is all over Europe. The public affairs of town and Colony were affected by these contentions, and the Governor and Assistants put in and out, as the one or the other side prevailed. The whole people unhappily run into factions and parties, in such a manner, as if contention and every evil work had not been evidences incontestable, that the wisdom from which they proceeded could not be from above.
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