Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1891 — Heresy Two Centuries Ago. [ARTICLE]

Heresy Two Centuries Ago.

Theological controversies still appear toj>e bitter, but how mild they would seem to the early settlers of this country! The pending disputes render very timely the publication, by the New York Learner and Teacher, of the following letter, which is claimed to be genuine, and the original of which is said to be in a book of records, Gating from early in 1600 to 1749, and kept in an old Quaker meeting house in Greenpoint, R. L: “September 15, 1682. “To ye aged and beloved—Mr. John Higginson: “There be now at sea a ship, called the Welcome, which has on board an hundred or more of the heretics and malignant* called Quakers, with W. Penn, who Is the chief scamp, at the head of them. “The General Court has accordingly given secret orders to Master Malachi Huscott, of the brig Porpoise, to waylay the said Welcome slyly, as near the Cape of Cod a* may be, and make captive the said Penn and his ungodly crew, so that the Lord may be glorified, and not mocked on the soil oi this new country with the heathen worship of these people. “Much spoil can be made by selling th* whole lot in Barbadoes, where slaves fetch good prices in rum and and we shall not only do the Lord great service by punishing the wicked, but we shall make great good for his minister and people. “Master Huscott feels hopeful, and I will set down the news when ship comes back. “Yours in ye bowels of Christ. “Cotton Mather.” We feel bound to say that this letter has rather too strong a flavor of a later century, and a more unregenerate humor, to justify its hasty acceptance as authentic. But whether this be a true bill or not, it is a matter of history that only a little more than a century before thii date —to wit, on the 27th of October, 1553 —Servetus was burned at the stake in Geneva, Switzerland, at the instigation of Calvin, because he taught doo* trines in which Calvin did not bellevwNew York Hven<njr Post.

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