Vulgar words in Travels in the United States of America - Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. - With the Author's Journals of his Two Voyages - Across the Atlantic. (Page 1)
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The celebrated Cotton, in a treatise published in 1647, laboured to prove the lawfulness of the magistrate using the civil sword, to extirpate _heretics_, from the command given to the jews, to put to death _blasphemers_ and _idolaters!_ "After saying it was _toleration_, which made the world _antichristian_, he concludes his work with this singular ejaculation:--'The Lord keep us from being bewitched with the whore's cup, lest while we seem to reject her with our profession, we bring her in by a _back door_ of _toleration_, and so drink deeply of the cup of the Lord's wrath, and be filled with her plagues!'