N03404:103
A letter to the author of the pamphlet called An answer [sic] to the…A letter to the author of the pamphlet called An answeer [sic] to the…
A letter to the author of the pamphlet called An answer [sic] to the Hampshire narrative. : [Three lines from Proverbs]A letter to the author of the pamphlet called An answeer [sic] to the Hampshire narrative. : [Three lines from Proverbs]
Boston: : s.n., Printed in the year 1737
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Whether you ordered that Circumstance of the reading those Testimonies, viz. its being done on Horse-back or no, yet by this, the reading of them in so public a Manner, as that it should be done before both the Church and others, was by your Advice. But you say you can assure us, if we will give Credit to you, that let it be done where it would, it was not only without the Council's Order but without their Knowledge. Here you assert, that not only the Place of the Thing, but the very Thing itself, let the Place be where it would, was without your Ordering, or your Knowledge. Here we leave it with yourself to make Reflections; We don't desire that any Body should put a worse Construction on this, than the best that the Case will allow: You probably had something when you wrote this, with which you might solve the Matter with your own Conscience; it may be, that in giving this Advice you did not formally act as a Council, and so could assert that it was not the of Council's Ordering or Knowledge: What your subterfuge is, we know not, but leave it with you to consider, whether if the Case was as this Friend of your's represents, there could be any▪ that could be honourable or warrantable?
Whether you ordered that Circumstance of the reading those Testimonies, viz. its being done on Horse-back or no, yet by this, the reading of them in so publick a Manner, as that it should be done before both the Church and others, was by your Advice. But you say you can assure us, if we will give Credit to you, that let it be done where it would, it was not only without the Council's Order but without their Knowledge. Here you assert, that not only the Place of the Thing, but the very Thing itself, let the Place be where it would, was without your Ordering, or your Knowledge. Here we leave it with yourself to make Reflections; We don't desire that any Body should put a worse Construction on this, than the best that the Case will allow: You probably had something when you wrote this, with which you might solve the Matter with your own Conscience; it may be, that in giving this Advice you did not formally act as a Council, and so could assert that it was not the of Council's Ordering or Knowledge: What your subterfuge is, we know not, but leave it with you to consider, whether if the Case was as this Friend of your's represents, there could be any▪ that could be honourable or warrantable?