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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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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.
Now, Reverend Sir, suppose this were indeed a proper Oath, and this Minister had been appointed to take it by the Association to which he belonged, What is that to us that an Association in Connecticut remote from us did so? As it is beside our Intention to say any thing on Defence of the Association of the County of Windham, so we are well assured, that those▪ Gentlemen are well able to defend themselves, when it shall be needful for them to free themselves from Apprehensions of the civil Magistrate in their own Colony, who have often heard of such kind of Oaths or Declarations, without any Suspicion of the Ministers entrenching upon their Office. ⟨p. 5⟩And we are very sorry that the Reverend Council have never heard of nor seen any such kind of Oath or Declaration in all the Discipline of the Church of England, and of Scotland or other reformed Churches abroad, which, if they had, it seems strange that they should think there was so much Occasion to put the Civil Magistrate upon drawing his Sword upon Associations for presuming to do it.
Now, Reverend Sir, suppose this were indeed a proper Oath, and this Minister had been appointed to take it by the Association to which he belonged, What is that to us that an Association in Connecticut remote from us did so? As it is beside our Intention to say any thing on Defence of the Association of the County of Windham, so we are well assured, that those▪ Gentlemen are well able to defend themselves, when it shall be needful for them to free themselves from Apprehensions of the civil Magistrate in their own Colony, who have often heard of such kind of Oaths or Declarations, without any Suspicion of the Ministers intrenching upon their Office. ⟨p. 5⟩And we are very sorry that the Reverend Council have never heard of nor seen any such kind of Oath or Declaration in all the Discipline of the Church of England, and of Scotland or other reformed Churches abroad, which, if they had, it seems strange that they should think there was so much Occasion to put the Civil Magistrate upon drawing his Sword upon Associations for presuming to do it.