Elder Lawrence Greatrake's 1838 pamphlet

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Lawrence Greatrake
(1793-c.1840)
Anti-Missionary Dissertation...
(Murfreesboro, TN: 1838)

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Transcriber's Comments

"Undercover Campbellite, 1822-25" | Greatrake's 1824 pamphlets | Campbell's first reply (1824)

Greatrake sources 1 | Greatrake sources 2 | Scott's 1824 pamphlet | Campbell's 1825 pamphlet

Greatrake's 1826 pamphlet | Greatrake's 1827 pamphlet | Greatrake's 1830 pamphlet

AN ANTI-MISSIONARY

DISSERTATION

ON THE COMMISSION

IN MARK 16, 15.

"And he said unto them, go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel
to every creature."

BY

LAWRENCE GREATRAKE.

JOHNSON & MABRY -- PRINTERS.
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MURFREESBOROUGH, TENN.
MDCCCXXVIII.

ERATTA.

4th page second line from the bottom, read after 'called’ "as to the genius and design of the gospel dispensation,” &c. 5th Page, for, is wanted: 7th page, 27th line from the top read beings, for things: 10th page 15 lines down, read, it is not, for, is it not: 29th page, read mutzatin for mutzatiu: 28th page, read Mal. 3, 6,for Math 3, 6: page 41, seventh line down, read, “God who giveth,” for, God giveth: 46th page, read Dissertation for Dissertion: 3d line, read, salvation of, &c.: 10th line, omit,‘too:’ 49th page, 15th line down, read, so for the last or: 53d page, read,Vale of Valambrosa, for Vale of the Valambrosa: also, read, towns for town: 56th page read, crimes for crime: 59th page supply have: 60th page, first line of Note, read consisted of, for, constituted: 61st page, supply be in first line last paragraph: 62d page, 27th line from the bottom read On for In: 21st line, read, none more, for now more: 63d page, 12 lines from the bottom, read, 1 instituted, for, instituted.

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proportion that disappointment and defalcation attend their missionary, moral, benevolent, &c. experiments in that proportion do they make use of that defalcation as a PLEA for multiplying and enlarging those experiments! Thus, as the disease grows worse -- as moral and religious corruptions increase and confusion increase -- and increase they will in a frightful ratio -- our Pharisees will multiply their prescriptions. in the form of new experiments and combinations; and which experiments &c. will brood and spawn upon the land religious adventurers (such as Alexander Campbell, the Reformer, Joe Smith, the Mormonite -- Dr. Thomas, of Virginia, the Semi-Reformer, Semi-Mormonite -- cum multis aliis) empires and quacks, countless as the leaves that strew the Vale of the Valambrosa, who will close their rickety, pandora-box patient with all the nostrums of ancient and modern missionary pharmacopoeia, from No. 1 and squills, to No. 6000 and hemlock, or prussic acid UW, that each succesdi vitae-water of lice. Even now commanded to take tartar or are giilped; an alterative or an ils; old ordure or new; all onep the last to be the best doctor's If are in such a state of accursed vassalage to hec* blerelipious tribunals, so that we map not eat, nor hink only by their ex cathedra. authority; what ia en, andchildren's children? Hebrews' bondage and afflictions inEgypt and in Babylon, put together, were liberty, ease and happiness themselves, compared with what those children will sigh, groan, and writhe

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TRANSCRIBER'S COMMENTS

Greatrake's 1838 Attack on Baptist Reformers

Old Murfreesboro Baptist Meeting-house

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