The first principles of New-England concerning the subject of baptism & communion of churchesThe first principles of New-England concerning the subject of baptisme & communion of churches

mean while perceiving that one main point of dissatisfaction, was the Authority given to the Fraternity, I considered more seriously and distinctly of the whole power of the Keys, and expressed my apprehensions in that treatise of the Keys which our Brethren here did well accept, and so did the Brethren of like Judgement in England, and some of them were pleased to arrest it, with the Preface that is now Extant before it — This was sundry years after the Treatise of the way had been finished, and carried to England, and as I hoped suppressed but it seemeth some Brother there— caused his Copy, which was indeed abrupt in the Entrance, and imperfect, otherwise ⟨p. 8⟩to be published in print, which when I saw, it troubled me not a little, as knowing that the discrepant Expressions in the one, and in the other, might trouble Friends, and give Advantages to Adversaries. I suffered both to stand as they did, especially, seeing I could not help it, the Book of the way being published without my Consent, and both the way and the Keys past my revoking, so that if the Replier find some discrepancy in one of these Books from the other, Let him know that the Doctrine of the way, in such few points, wherein it differs from the Keys, was not mine, when the Keys was published, much less when the way was published, which was many years after, though it had been penned many years before.

mean while perceiving that one main point of dissatisfaction, was the Authority given to the Fraternity, I consiered more se•iously and distinctly of the whole power of the Keys, and expressed my apprehensions in that treatise of the Keys which our Brethren here did well accept, and so did the Brethren of like Judgement in England, and some of them were pleased to arrest it, with the Preface that is now Extant before it — This was sundry years after the Treatise of the way had been finished, and carryed to England, and as I hoped suppressed but it seemeth some Brother there— caused his Copy, which was indeed abrupt in the Entrance, and imperfect, otherwise ⟨p. 8⟩to be published in print, which when I saw, it troubled me not a little, as knowing that the discrepant Expressions in the one, and in the other, might trouble Friends, and give Advantages to Adversaries. I suffered both to stand as they did, especially, seeing I could not help it, the Book of the way being published without my Consent, and both the way and the Keys past my revoking, so that if the Replier find some discrepancy in one of these Books from the other, Let him know that the Doctrine of the way, in such few points, wherein it differs from the Keys, was not mine, when the Keys was published, much less when the way was published, which was many years after, though it had been penned many years before.