The serviceable man. A discourse made unto the General Court of the Massachusetts colony,…

But might I treat with you in Their Name, I would then broadly say! Nothing that you do shall satisfy us; Let the Justice and the Wisdom of your Actions be never so profound, we will Calumniate all you do; All the Requital that we will make you for your indefatigable Endeavours to make us happy, shall be to Reproach you, and Expose you; whatever Disaster happen to us, we will presently say, 'Tis you Moses that have killed the Congregation; and because the Indians Lay but as quiet in the Winter before the Revolution, as they have done another Winter since, we'll say, That the coming of the Government into your Hands, is the cause of all the mischief which in the Summer they saw a Time to Do. We'll Refuse to bear any part of the Public Charges, and yet if the Drought of the Public Treasures make it impossible for you to do many Things that you are more forward than any of us to do, we'll Article against you, because those ⟨image ?⟩things are left undone. In a word, If we could but find a Captain, we would return into any Egypt, rather than under your Guidance, Encounter the Difficulties of a Wilderness.

But might I treat with you in Their Name, I would then broadly say! Nothing that you do shall satisfie us; Let the Justice and the Wisdom of your Actions be never so profound, we will Calumniate all you do; All the Requital that we will make you for your indefatigable Endeavours to make us happy, shall be to Reproach you, and Expose you; whatever Disaster happen to us, we will presently say, 'Tis you Moses that have killed the Congregation; and because the Indians Lay but as quiet in the Winter before the Revolution, as they have done another Winter since, we'l say, That the coming of the Government into your Hands, is the cause of all the mischief which in the Summer they saw a Time to Do. We'l Refuse to bear any part of the Public Charges, and yet if the Drought of the Public Treasures make it imposible for you to do many Things that you are more forward than any of us to do, wee'l Article against you, because those ⟨image ?⟩things are left undone. In a word, If we could but find a Captain, we would return into any Egypt, rather than under your Guidance, Encounter the Difficultes of a Wilderness.