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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
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.
Having, for a little while, done with the Rector, you in the next Place fall upon us, and blame us again for refusing to give you a friendly meeting, and standing aloof from you when you came into the County, tho' so contrary to Fact, as we have already shown; and then you undertake to show how we have set up a Jurisdiction over the first Church in Springfield, and have invaded the Rights of a congregational Church, and are chargeable with no small Degree of Injuriousness, Usurpation, and Tyranny. And here in the first Place, as a Proof of this, you charge us again with taking the Affair of Springfield into our own Hands, without it's being referred to us by that Church; which we have particularly answered already: And nextly you say, we endeavoured to keep the Case in the Hands of the Association, and bring the Church at Springfield under a Necessity to submit to our Judgment: To prove this you rehearse Part of a Letter, sent from one of us to the Rev. Mr. Cooper: And we beg of you, Sir, with some Seriousness, to consider how you have abused the Association and the Author, in your Citation of that Letter: That you may so do we will now set before your Eyes, your Citation and the Original together, where the Words you have suppressed in the Original are distinguished by an Italian Character.
Having, for a little while, done with the Rector, you in the next Place fall upon us, and blame us again for refusing to give you a friendly meeting, and standing aloof from you when you came into the County, tho' so contrary to Fact, as we have already shown; and then you undertake to show how we have set up a Jurisdiction over the first Church in Springfield, and have invaded the Rights of a congregational Church, and are chargeable with no small Degree of Injuriousness, Usurpation, and Tyranny. And here in the first Place, as a Proof of this, you charge us again with taking the Affair of Springfield into our own Hands, without it's being referred to us by that Church; which we have particularly answered already: And nextly you say, we endeavoured to keep the Case in the Hands of the Association, and bring the Church at Springfield under a Necessity to submit to our Judgment: To prove this you rehearse Part of a Letter, sent from one of us to the Rev. Mr. Cooper: And we beg of you, Sir, with some Seriousness, to consider how you have abused the Association and the Author, in your Citation of that Letter: That you may so do we will now set before your Eyes, your Citation and the Original together, where the Words you have suppressed in the Original are distinguish'd by an Italian Character.