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Suppose, Rev. Sir, that you that are the Ministers of Boston, or of that Neighbourhood, had it credibly signified to you, by the Ministers of some distant Place, that there was a Design of introducing Popery into some one of your Congregations, by a popish Priest, that lately went from them in the Disguise of a Protestant Minister, (for it concerns not the present Argument whether Popery ben't worse than what Mr. Breck was charged with) and you were sensible that this Congregation were led on in the blind, and knew nothing of it, and one of you that had received this Information in a Letter, should ⟨p. 28⟩show it to the rest of the Ministers, would this be Usurpation and Tyranny? And would you not look on your selves obliged, as christian Neighbours, and especially as neighbouring Ministers, to act in this Affair, so far as to make a particular Enquiry, to see whether it were so or not, and if you found it to be so indeed, to inform that Congregation, to prevent their undoing, and to prevent the bringing in such an Infection into the Neighbourhood? Would you do any more than your Prudence and Duty in this Matter? And would you deserve at all to be reproached, derided, and insulted, as insufferable Tyrants and Usurpers on this Account?

Suppose, Rev. Sir, that you that are the Ministers of Boston, or of that Neighbourhood, had it credibly signified to you, by the Ministers of some distant Place, that there was a Design of introducing Popery into some one of your Congregations, by a popish Priest, that lately went from them in the Disguise of a Protestant Minister, (for it concerns not the present Argument whether Popery ben't worse than what Mr. Breck was charged with) and you were sensible that this Congregation were led on in the blind, and knew nothing of it, and one of you that had received this Information in a Letter, should ⟨p. 28⟩shew it to the rest of the Ministers, would this be Usurpation and Tyranny? And would you not look on your selves obliged, as christian Neighbours, and especially as neighbouring Ministers, to act in this Affair, so far as to make a particular Enquiry, to see whether it were so or not, and if you found it to be so indeed, to inform that Congregation, to prevent their undoing, and to prevent the bringing in such an Infection into the Neighbourhood? Would you do any more than your Prudence and Duty in this Matter? And would you deserve at all to be reproached, derided, and insulted, as insufferable Tyrants and Usurpers on this Account?