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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.
Your Citation. | The Original. It is an odd Thing that the Case of a Candidate, brought before an ASSOCIATION, should be wrested out of their Hands, (nam sub Judice lis erat) under a Notion of the Privilege that the Churches have, to choose their own Officers, or of the Liberty to choose whom they will to ordain. | If the Charges against Mr. Breck were fairly heard before our whole Association, to whom they were sent, (yea, if you yourself, & one more Gentleman of a cool Temper, were added to them,) and he were acquitted by them, I believe Things would be like to be easy. I can't but think it an odd Thing that the Case of a Candidate brought before an Association, should be wrested out of their Hands (nam sub Judice lis erat) under the Notion of the Privilege the Churches have to choose their own Officers, (which no Minister in this County I believe ever thought of infringing them of,) or of their Liberty to choose whom they will to ordain. If the Charges against Mr. Breck were heard by our whole ASSOCIATION, and he was cleared by them, Things would be like to be easy.— | I will venture still to propose to your self, (since you manifest a Desire to visit us in this Part of the Province) that you, with some other prudent Minister would be so good as to come up among us (not as sent by your Churches) and endeavour to be Peace-makers among us, that you may be entitled to that Blessing in Matth. 5. 9.
Your Citation. | The Original. It is an odd Thing that the Case of a Candidate, brought before an ASSOCIATION, should be wrested out of their Hands, (nam sub Judice lis erat) under a Notion of the Privilege that the Churches have, to chuse their own Officers, or of the Liberty to chuse whom they will to ordain. | If the Charges against Mr. Breck were fairly heard before our whole Association, to whom they were sent, (yea, if you yourself, & one more Gentleman of a cool Temper, were added to them,) and he were acquitted by them, I believe Things would be like to be easy. I can't but think it an odd Thing that the Case of a Candidate brought before an Association, should be wrested out of their Hands (nam sub Judice lis erat) under the Notion of the Priviledge the Churches have to chuse their own Officers, (which no Minister in this County I believe ever thought of infringing them of,) or of their Liberty to chuse whom they will to ordain. If the Charges against Mr. Breck were heard by our whole ASSOCIATION, and he was cleared by them, Things would be like to be easy.— | I will venture still to propose to your self, (since you manifest a Desire to visit us in this Part of the Province) that you, with some other prudent Minister would be so good as to come up among us (not as sent by your Churches) and endeavour to be Peace-makers among us, that you may be entitled to that Blessing in