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Certainly, Sir, when you was blaming us for going beyond our Evidence, it did not become you in the very same Instance you produce to prove it, to do the same Thing! We leave it with you to consider what Decency or Ingenuity there is in thus insisting on a Thing that comes corrected, repeating it in different Parts of your Book, only on a groundless Guess, that not we, but somebody else corrected it: Don't this again show that you endeavoured to lay on all the Load you possibly could, and that you was greedy of Instances of Untruth and Misrepresentation in us; otherwise why would not such a Multitude of other Instances, that you pretend you have found, that ben't mentioned as Errata, suffice you?

Certainly, Sir, when you was blaming us for going beyond our Evidence, it did not become you in the very same Instance you produce to prove it, to do the same Thing! We leave it with you to consider what Decency or Ingenuity there is in thus insisting on a Thing that comes corrected, repeating it in different Parts of your Book, only on a groundless Guess, that not we, but somebody else corrected it: Don't this again show that you endeavour'd to lay on all the Load you possibly could, and that you was greedy of Instances of Untruth and Misrepresentation in us; otherwise why would not such a Multitude of other Instances, that you pretend you have found, that ben't mention'd as Errata, suffice you?

In Answer to our first Argument to prove that those that sat at Springfield, and took upon them to sit there as Judges of that Case, were not regularly called thereto, viz Because the prevailing Part of them were not of neighbouring Churches, but fetched from remote Parts of the Country, in neglect of the Churches of the Neighbourhood, and in Opposition to the Body of neighbouring Ministers, you say, first, that it was because one of the Churches of the Neighbourhood that was sent for would not come, that it was so that the prevailing Part was of remote Churches: And if you had told the whole Truth, would you not have said too that but one of the Churches of the County would have come, if you that came from Boston had let them alone? You speak of the Rev. Mr. Williams of Hatfield, his refusing to come, as a Thing that strengthened your Warrant to act; but it seems to us, that considering his Age, and that he was the principal Person of all that Springfield applied to, his refusing to come, as discountenancing the Method of proceeding, should' have rather made you more slow in Acting, especially when he not only refused to come, but entered his solemn Protest against your Proceedings.