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But then as a further & a more abundantly satisfactory Ground of your Proceedings, you produce his Confession of Faith, and then when you have done, cry out of us, It is very strange those disapproving Gentlemen should say in their Defence, that the Council declare in their Result, there was nothing in the Way of his Ordination, without his ever openly making any Recantation, or any Reflection on himself, for the Errors he had vented. How he should make open Reflections on himself for Errors he has vented, without ever openly owning that he had ever held any Errors, is what we can't understand; this he never did at Springfield, nor in his Letter to Mr. Clap, nor any other Way that ever appeared: He indeed says, in his Letter to Mr. Clap, that tho' he had preached Errors, yet says at the same Time he did not believe them; and yet makes no Reflections on himself, ⟨p. 74⟩for delivering in the Name of GOD, what he did not believe. But you speak as if his Confession of Faith abundantly answered all Ends, and call it a public Recantation, and wonder that we should go to say he made no public Recantation: But according to what Language merely an orthodox Confession of Faith is a Recantation of Errors formerly maintained and preached, we don't know: A Recantation of Errors, as we (and suppose all the World except your self) understand it, ever implies these two things, First. An Acknowledgement that such Errors were formerly held; and, Secondly, That now there is an Alteration, that they are no longer held but renounced. We are well satisfied the Rev. Mr. Cooper, would think himself greatly injured if such a Construction were out upon the Confession of Faith which he made at his own Ordination And we think that more than merely a Confession of Faith was necessary in this Case, upon two Accounts, 1st. Because all the Hindrance or Block that was in the Way of Mr. Breck's Improvement in the Ministry, was not an Incapacity in him to be a Teacher of Truth, by Reason of his not receiving the Truth, but maintaining Error; but also there was public and open Dishonour to Christ and his holy Doctrines, that was to be removed: GOD is openly sinned against, and thereby a great Wound given to Religion, that is to be healed. You yourself allow, Page 84, that the Things objected against Mr.

But then as a further & a more abundantly satisfactory Ground of your Proceedings, you produce his Confession of Faith, and then when you have done, cry out of us, It is very strange those disapproving Gentlemen should say in their Defence, that the Council declare in their Result, there was nothing in the Way of his Ordination, without his ever openly making any Recantation, or any Reflection on himself, for the Errors he had vented. How he should make open Reflections on himself for Errors he has vented, without ever openly owning that he had ever held any Errors, is what we can't understand; this he never did at Springfield, nor in his Letter to Mr. Clap, nor any other Way that ever appeared: He indeed says, in his Letter to Mr. Clap, that tho' he had preached Errors, yet says at the same Time he did not believe them; and yet makes no Reflections on himself,