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We the Ministers of this Neighbourhood never refused to consent that two or three others should be joined with our Association, in this Affair of Mr. Breck: This is what we proposed once and again to Mr. Breck, another Time to the Church of Springfield, another Time to Mr. Cooper; but were always refused, as we shall fully show afterwards.

We the Ministers of this Neighbourhood never refused to consent that two or three others should be joined with our Association, in this Affair of Mr. Breck: This is what we proposed once and again to Mr. Breck, another Time to the Church of Springfield, another Time to Mr. Cooper; but were always refused, as we shall fully shew afterwards.

There is no Doubt to be made but that the Synod in 1662, would have utterly condemned doing as Springfield Church have done, setting aside all the Churches but one, in that lower Part of the County (a putting the Affair mainly into the Hands of others, is inconsistent with having a special Reference to them, which the Synod directed to, at the same Time that others are made Use of) and doing as you have done, in Opposition to the Body of neighbouring Ministers, as supposing them prejudiced and unfit Persons. The Churches of this County have, from their Beginning till now, gone on in a Practice that is agreeable to the Advice of this Synod:—We are much separated from other Parts of the Province, having comparatively but little Intercourse with them: Divine Providence, by our Situation, has as it were made us one Society, so as that we are very much united, and unavoidably in a great Degree mutually influenced in our religious Affairs.

There is no Doubt to be made but that the Synod in 1662, would have utterly condemned doing as Springfield Church have done, setting aside all the Churches but one, in that lower Part of the County (a putting the Affair mainly into the Hands of others, is inconsistent with having a special Reference to them, which the Synod directed to, at the same Time that others are made Use of) and doing as you have done, in Opposition to the Body of neighbouring Ministers, as supposing them prejudiced and unfit Persons. The Churches of this County have, from their Beginning till now, gone on in a Practice that is agreeable to the Advice of this Synod:—We are much seperated from other Parts of the Province, having comparitively but little Intercourse with them: Divine Providence, by our Situation, has as it were made us one Society, so as that we are very much united, and unavoidably in a great Degree mutually influenced in our religious Affairs.