N01868:78
The deplorable state of New-England, by reason of a covetous and treacherous governor, and…The deplorable state of New-England, by reason of a covetous and treacherous governour, and…
The deplorable state of New-England, by reason of a covetous and treacherous governor, and pusillanimous counsellors : with a vindication of the Honourable Mr. Higginson, Mr. Mason, and several other gentlemen, from the scandalous and wicked accusation of the votes, ordered by them to be published in their Botson [sic] news-letter. : To which is added, an account of the shameful miscarriage of the late expedition against Port-Royal.The deplorable state of New-England, by reason of a covetous and treacherous governour, and pusillanimous counsellors : with a vindication of the Honourable Mr. Higginson, Mr. Mason, and several other gentlemen, from the scandalous and wicked accusation of the votes, ordered by them to be published in their Botson [sic] news-letter. : To which is added, an account of the shameful miscarriage of the late expedition against Port-Royal.
Boston : London: printed in the year 1708. Reprinted by Samuel Kneeland?, 1721
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Certainly, when lose Honest Gentlemen come to see the Practices of their Governor discovered, they will with Grief and Sh•ne reflect upon the Addresses, by which they have too far made themselves Parties to such a Governor. Some of them will consider, Whether they had not best follow the Noble Pattern which their Judge Sewall has given them Gentlemen, Such things as by common Fame, you know to be in the Conduct of your Governor, are not things which must needs render a Man acceptable to […], and to all Good Men.—That Expression were fitter for Pens of Roman Catholics, than of New-England Ministers. You ought, with some Remorse to make a Retractation of such a Passage as that, which we hear (by Letters, fo• we have not seen it) is in one of your Addresses. We hope you Teach your People better things!
Certainly, when •ese Honest Gentlemen come to see the Practices of their Governour discovered, they will with Grief and Sh•ne reflect upon the Addresses, by which they have too far made themselves Parties to such a Governour. Some of them will consider, Whether they had not best follow the Noble Pattern which their Judge Sewall has given them Gentlemen, Such things as by common Fame, you know to be in the Conduct of your Governour, are not things which must needs render a Man acceptable to 〈…〉, and to all Good Men.—That Expression were fitter for Pens of Roman Catholicks, than of New-England Ministers. You ought, with some Remorse to make a Retractation of such a Passage as that, which we hear (by Letters, fo• we have not seen it) is in one of your Addresses. We hope you Teach your People better things!
You are generally, so fa• as we hear, Good, Pious, Faithful Men, and Blessings to your People. But if we may be worthy to advise you, we think, you would do well to resolve, that you will never Sign Addresses of this Nature, till you have had Opportunity in some Convention (if you have such Things, for we are Strangers to your Methods) to Discourse with one another, how far it may be Convenient.