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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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Besides the Arguments of the Usurpation of our Association here, there is another Thing you mention Page 4, as an Argument of it you say, We find frequent mention in their Narrative, of their Association, its Meetings, breaking up, Committee, Votes, and Doings. What can you mean by this? Is it an Argument of Usurpation in us, that we call our selves an Association? As if congregational Divines were Strangers to such a Term, when Dr. Cotton Mather, whom you cite as such an one, often uses the Term in his Ratio Disciplinae, and approves the Thing as here practised, as has been already shown; and you your selves in Boston call your selves so, as you have given an Account, Page 87. And is it any Argument of Usurpation that we meet, and when we have met break up again? Or that we have Doings, and don't do nothing when we meet? Or that we signify our Minds by Votes? Or that we have in some Cases chosen a Committee? As if any voluntary Society may not choose a Committee to serve the rest and act for their Benefit!
Besides the Arguments of the Usurpation of our Association here, there is another Thing you mention Page 4, as an Argument of it you say, We find frequent mention in their Narrative, of their Association, its Meetings, breaking up, Committee, Votes, and Doings. What can you mean by this? Is it an Argument of Usurpation in us, that we call our selves an Association? As if congregational Divines were Strangers to such a Term, when Dr. Cotton Mather, whom you cite as such an one, often uses the Term in his Ratio Disciplinae, and approves the Thing as here practised, as has been already shown; and you your selves in Boston call your selves so, as you have given an Account, Page 87. And is it any Argument of Usurpation that we meet, and when we have met break up again? Or that we have Doings, and don't do nothing when we meet? Or that we signify our Minds by Votes? Or that we have in some Cases chosen a Committee? As if any voluntary Society may not chuse a Committee to serve the rest and act for their Benefit!
In Page 82, 83, you say, That Mr. Lasel declares that when Mr. Clap came to him to get his Testimony, he would have had it run in such Terms as he could not in Conscience subscribe to; and when he told him how his Evidence must run, if he gave one at all, then his Evidence was no longer desired. We have enquired of Mr. Clap about this Matter, and he informs us that he never went to Mr. Lasel to get him to give in any Evidence at all, and that the only Paper he desired him to subscribe, was a Paper containing his Discourse with Mr. Manning and others, when the said Lasel was present, of which there is some Account in our Narrative Page 60, 65.