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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.

We have from the Beginning till now, always managed our ecclesiastical Affairs within our selves; 'tis the Way which the County from its Infancy has gone on in, by the practical Agreement of all, and the Way in which our Peace has ever been maintained; so that we suppose we have been the freest by far of any Part of the Land from unhappy Contentions in our ecclesiastical and religious Concerns, 'till you have overthrown our Peace, and put us into the utmost Confusion, by coming from abroad, and intermeddling in our Affairs: Yea this Way of managing our ecclesiastical Affairs, has not only been established by long continued practical Agreement, but also by the explicit and publicly declared Consent of many of the Churches: In the Year 1714 the Rev. Mr. Brewer of Springfield, with others, did at a Meeting of