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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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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.
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 entred his solemn Protest against your Proceedings.