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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
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and declares furthermore, that he not only gave out no such Thing as you charge him with, viz. That there would be no Ordination, but did not so much as think so; but on the contrary, that he supposed no other, but that you would ordain Mr. B—as you intended. Line 12, 13, 14, you say, Some others of Connecticut that were with him there, could give out the same. Whereas there was no Body with him at that Time, but only his Son that came to wait upon him. In Line 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, you say, And whether he did not urge the serving the Warrant upon that Part of the Council that did not belong to the County, let the Gentleman who refused to consent to it's being served, be enquired of. Here again we suppose nothing but Conjecture is your Foundation; the Rev. Rector declares that there was no such Thing in Fact, and the Gentleman you direct to enquire of declares himself abused, and that he has given no Foundation for you to insinuate as if there was. In Line 23, &c. you ⟨p. 64⟩proceed, When Mr. Breck was taken from the Council into the public Town-House, and treated after the Manner he was, did not Mr. Rector W—ms sit there with a singular Air of Pleasure in his Countenance. When Persons are publicly reproached for the Air of their Countenance, the Charge is of such a Nature, that let it be never so groundless, no Man living is under Capacity to vindicate himself from it; it depending on the Eye and Judgment (and oftentimes the Disposition) of Spectators, what an Air a Man appears with: But others that saw the Rector, observed no Manner of Ground for such a Reproach to be cast upon him. Line 28, &c. you say, And did he not faithfully attend at Springfield till the Business was so far over, that the Warrant was signed to send him to Connecticut, then he rode away a little before, no doubt to prepare him a suitable Reception in that Colony, and to do, as that Person of Distinction did, who wrote the Letter from N—H—to L—g M—d—w. Here 'tis implied that the Rector went to Connecticut before Mr. B—, and what a dark Hint is here, as tho' you know of something that he did going before Mr. B—k to Connecticut, to prepare him a Reception in that Government, that you forbear to tell the World!
and declares furthermore, that he not only gave out no such Thing as you charge him with, viz. That there would be no Ordination, but did not so much as think so; but on the contrary, that he supposed no other, but that you would ordain Mr. B—as you intended. Line 12, 13, 14, you say, Some others of Connecticut that were with him there, could give out the same. Whereas there was no Body with him at that Time, but only his Son that came to wait upon him. In Line 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, you say, And whether he did not urge the serving the Warrant upon that Part of the Council that did not belong to the County, let the Gentleman who refused to consent to it's being served, be enquired of. Here again we suppose nothing but Conjecture is your Foundation; the Rev. Rector declares that there was no such Thing in Fact, and the Gentleman you direct to enquire of declares himself abused, and that he has given no Foundation for you to insinuate as if there was. In Line 23, &c. you