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PC.768.120
26 Sep-3 Oct 1768:2902 (90)
[In long article on religious disputes in early
Massachusetts history:]
Having thus silenced or banished the Episcopalians, they
then fell foul of one another, and divided into two
factions, the one zealous for the covenant of works, and the
other for the covenant of grace.-- For as the witty Butler
observes,
--Zeal's a dreadful termagant,
That teaches saints to tear and rant,
And independents to profess
The doctrine of Independences;
Turns meek, and secret, sneaking ones,
To raw-heads fierce, and bloody-bones:
And not content with endless quarrels
Against the wicked and their morals,
The Gibellines for want of Guelfs,
Divert their rage upon themselves.
For now the war is not between
The brethren and the men of sin;
But saint and saint, to spill the blood
Of one another's brotherhood.
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