" [Footnote: _Gospel Order Revived_, pp. 34, 35.]
No printer in Boston dared to be responsible for this ribaldry, and when
it came home from New York and was actually cast before the people, words
fail to convey the condition into which the patriarch was thrown. At last
his emotions found a vent in a tract which he prepared jointly with his
son.
"A moral heathen would not have done as he has done. [Footnote:
_Collection of Some of the More Offensive Matters_, Preface.]... There is
no one thing, which does more threaten or disgrace New-England, than want
of due respect unto superiors. [Footnote: _Idem_, p. 10.]... It is a
disgrace to the name of Presbyterian, that such as he is should pretend
unto it. [Footnote: _Idem_, p. 12.]... and if our children should learn
from them, ... we may tremble to think, what a flood of profaneness and
atheism would break in upon us, and ripen us for the dreadfullest
judgments of God. [Footnote: _Idem_, p. 7.]... They assault him [the aged
president] with a volley of rude jeers and taunts, as if they were so many
children of Bethel." [Footnote: _Idem_, p. 8.] Among these taunts some
struck deep, for they are quoted at length. "'Abundance of people have
long obstinately believed, that the contest on his part, is more for
lordship and dominion, than for truth.' But there are many more such
passages, which laid altogether, would make a considerable dung-hil.
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