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(some Men as to Intellects do not exceed some Brutes) or Man Animal be transmitted to posterity? 3. The Accounts of every white Man and Indian mutually kill'd or otherways dead, would swell and lower History so much, as to render the Perusal of [1:362] such Histories (excepting with old Women and Children) impracticable. 4. The Succession of pious Pastors, Elders and Deacons, in the several Townships, Parishes or Congregations; I leave to Ecclesiastick Chronologers; Canonization or Sainting seems not consistent with our Protestant Principles. 5. The printed Accounts in all Respects are beyond all Excuse intolerably erroneous.
This is a laborious Affair, being obliged to consult MSS Records; the many printed Accounts are, 1. Too credulous and superstitious. 2. Too trifling; must the insipid History of every Brute [note] (some Men as to Intellects do not exceed some Brutes) or Man Animal be transmitted to posterity? 3. The Accounts of every white Man and Indian mutually kill'd or otherways dead, would swell and lower History so much, as to render the Perusal of [1:362] such Histories (excepting with old Women and Children) impracticable. 4. The Succession of pious Pastors, Elders and Deacons, in the several Townships, Parishes or Congregations; I leave to Ecclesiastick Chronologers; Canonization or Sainting seems not consistent with our Protestant Principles. 5. The printed Accounts in all Respects are beyond all Excuse intolerably erroneous.[note]This is, perhaps, a pun on
Brutus, who tradition---upheld by
many historians and antiquarians---held
to have settled in Britain after fleeing
from Troy (Brutus was the British
equivalent of Aeneas, who
supposedly founded the Latin
race after fleeing Troy).[NOTE_9621_0]
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(some Men as to Intellects do not exceed some Brutes) or Man Animal be transmitted to posterity? 3. The Accounts of every white Man and Indian mutually kill'd or otherways dead, would swell and lower History so much, as to render the Perusal of [1:362] such Histories (excepting with old Women and Children) impracticable. 4. The Succession of pious Pastors, Elders and Deacons, in the several Townships, Parishes or Congregations; I leave to Ecclesiastick Chronologers; Canonization or Sainting seems not consistent with our Protestant Principles. 5. The printed Accounts in all Respects are beyond all Excuse intolerably erroneous.
This is a laborious Affair, being obliged to consult MSS Records; the many printed Accounts are, 1. Too credulous and superstitious. 2. Too trifling; must the insipid History of every Brute [note] (some Men as to Intellects do not exceed some Brutes) or Man Animal be transmitted to posterity? 3. The Accounts of every white Man and Indian mutually kill'd or otherways dead, would swell and lower History so much, as to render the Perusal of [1:362] such Histories (excepting with old Women and Children) impracticable. 4. The Succession of pious Pastors, Elders and Deacons, in the several Townships, Parishes or Congregations; I leave to Ecclesiastick Chronologers; Canonization or Sainting seems not consistent with our Protestant Principles. 5. The printed Accounts in all Respects are beyond all Excuse intolerably erroneous.[note]This is, perhaps, a pun on
Brutus, who tradition---upheld by
many historians and antiquarians---held
to have settled in Britain after fleeing
from Troy (Brutus was the British
equivalent of Aeneas, who
supposedly founded the Latin
race after fleeing Troy).[NOTE_9621_0]
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