This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 edition. Excerpt: ...and nothing in answer to it or them; by which means the world might think those principles to be approved by all, which were abhorred by sundry worthy Ministers in the land; the unfairness of which practice they labored to convince him of. Yet he still declined to print it; but at length said, if they ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 edition. Excerpt: ...and nothing in answer to it or them; by which means the world might think those principles to be approved by all, which were abhorred by sundry worthy Ministers in the land; the unfairness of which practice they labored to convince him of. Yet he still declined to print it; but at length said, if they would admit the Lieutenant Governor to be askt, to give his Approbation to it, he would Print it; which they were unwilling to for this reason: Because they conceived it a new Method, not practised heretofore, and which the said Green would not have required of them now, From a passage in Josinh Cotton's Diary it appears that Gospel Order Revived was generally considered to lie the joint work of the Rev. Messrs. Colman, Bradstreet, (of Charlcstown, ) and Woodbridge, (of West Springfield?) but to put off the Printing of this Book which answered the Mathers, whom he seemed loth to displease," &c. &c. Following these depositions are some sufficiently caustic remarks, from the pen of Thomas Brattle, on the "Advertisement" of " Mr. Green the Printer," and "that Libellous Scribble at the tail of said Greeris Advertisement, to which the Reverend Author was not yet so Hardy as to set his Name;" the whole bearing date Dec. 27, 1700. In a paper dated January 10, 1700-1, Green replies to this last publication, reviews the whole controversy, and states that his reluctance to print "Gospel Order Revived" was caused by his recollection of the " great disturbance the Manifesto had made," which he had printed "very privately at Tuthill's desire," and which, says he, "made me the more thoughtful, lest this might give more offence;" adding, in an address "To the Candid...
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