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…

If the major Part of the Churches in the County have voted to come into a certain Method of Government, why mayn't it, by your own Ways of arguing, be a Constitution for the County, as well as the Vote of the major Part of the Churches of the Province be a Constitution for the Province. Give us leave, on this Occasion, to recite to you the Words of one of the Elders of your own Council at Springfield, (and one of you that came from far, and was very active in Mr. Breck's Favour) which he has published in a small Pamphlet of his concerning Ruling Elders, Page 10, 11. Upon the prophetic Spirit that our Author, all on a sudden seems to be inspired with, when he tells us that the Non-conformist's Cause in this Country depends entirely, under GOD, upon our Adherence to the Platform or the congregational Principles; which is just like the other popular Cries we have heard of late, These, O Churches of the Massachusetts are your great and distinguishing Privileges, &c.—the dying Testimony of some of the worthy Fathers in some of their last Lecture Sermons to our Platform; and the like: All calculated for no other Design than to hurry the unthinking Part of the World, into Bigotry and blind Zeal, the Result of which will be to throw all into Confusion; and it is well if some that are active in it have not this secret Design. And much is there to the same Purpose

If the major Part of the Churches in the County have voted to come into a certain Method of Government, why mayn't it, by your own Ways of arguing, be a Constitution for the County, as well as the Vote of the major Part of the Churches of the Province be a Constitution for the Province. Give us leave, on this Occasion, to recite to you the Words of one of the Elders of your own Council at Springfield, (and one of you that came from far, and was very active in Mr. Breck's Favour) which he has publish'd in a small Pamphlet of his concerning Ruling Elders, Page 10, 11. Upon the prophetick Spirit that our Author, all on a sudden seems to be inspired with, when he tells us that the Non-conformist's Cause in this Country depends entirely, under GOD, upon our Adherence to the Platform or the congregational Principles; which is just like the other popular Cries we have heard of late, These, O Churches of the Massachusetts are your great and distinguishing Privileges, &c.—the dying Testimony of some of the worthy Fathers in some of their last Lecture Sermons to our Platform; and the like: All calculated for no other Design than to hurry the unthinking Part of the World, into Bigotry and blind Zeal, the Result of which will be to throw all into Confusion; and it is well if some that are active in it have not this secret Design. And much is there to the same Purpose