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law of God, and that Christ’s suffering and obedience 
were for himself; both parts of which, we think, con¬ 
tain dangerous error.” 
Also: ^ It hath been said, and doth appear to this 
council, that the Rev. Mr. Osborn, both in public and 
in private, asserted that there are no promises in the 
Bible but what are conditional, which we think, also, 
to be an error, and do say that there are promises which 
are absolute and without any condition, — such as the 
promise of a new heart, and that he will write his law 
in our hearts.’” 
Also, they say, ‘it hath been alleged, and doth appear 
to us, that Mr. Osborn hath declared, that obedience is 
a considerable came of a person’s justification, which, 
we think, contains very dangerous error.’ ” 
And many the like distinctions they made, such as 
some of my readers, probably, are more familiar with 
than I am. So, far in the East, among the Yezidis, or 
Worshippers of the Devil, so-called, the Chaldseans, and 
others, according to the testimony of travellers, you 
may still hear these remarkable disputations on doc¬ 
trinal points going on. Osborn was, accordingly, dis¬ 
missed, and he removed to Boston, where he kept school 
for many years. But he was fully justified, methinks, 
by his works in the peat-meadow; one proof of which 
is, that he lived to be between ninety and one hundred 
years old. 
The next minister was the Rev. Benjamin Webb, of 
whom, though a neighboring clergyman pronounced him 
“the best man and the best minister whom he ever 
knew,” yet the historian says, that, 
“ As he spent his days in the uniform discharge of 
his duty (it reminds one of a country muster) and 
