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You moreover mention the Judgment given in favour of Mr. B—, with Respect to his Orthodoxy, by some Ministers in Boston, of which the Rev. Mr. Cooper was one, before he was come as a Judge in this Case, as one Ground of your Result. Before this, you speak in Page 36, as tho' it were very strange that any should think that the Judgment then given should disqualify the Persons that gave it from sitting as Judges in this Case, representing as tho' that Judgment no Way concerned the present Case; but now it so much concerns the present Case, as justly to be made one Ground of a Judgment in the Case; which was the very Thing on the Account of which we objected against it, viz That Judges that have given their Judgment before, in an Affair that so nearly concern the Case, won't be likely to be impartial, but to be influenced by their former Judgment, and now it proves so in Fact by your own Confession; in so much that you publicly declare that that very Judgment was one Thing that you even founded your Judgment upon sitting in Council in this Case, and as such insert it in your very Result, and insist upon it afterwards as a very good Ground too.

You moreover mention the Judgment given in favour of Mr. B—, with Respect to his Orthodoxy, by some Ministers in Boston, of which the Rev. Mr. Cooper was one, before he was come as a Judge in this Case, as one Ground of your Result. Before this, you speak in Page 36, as tho' it were very strange that any should think that the Judgment then given should disqualify the Persons that gave it from sitting as Judges in this Case, representing as tho' that Judgment no Way concerned the present Case; but now it so much concerns the present Case, as justly to be made one Ground of a Judgment in the Case; which was the very Thing on the Account of which we objected against it, viz That Judges that have given their Judgment before, in an Affair that so nearly concern the Case, won't be likely to be impartial, but to be influenced by their former Judgment, and now it proves so in Fact by your own Confession; in so much that you publickly declare that that very Judgment was one Thing that you even founded your Judgment upon sitting in Council in this Case, and as such insert it in your very Result, and insist upon it afterwards as a very good Ground too.