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You next proceed to consider our sixth Reason, viz. That the major Part of the Council were not regularly called, even according to your own Principles, and that because the Churches you belonged to were never applied to by Springfield Church. Here you allow the Consequence to be good, and say, If this was so we might well say you intermeddled in an Affair that did not belong to you, and pronounce all your Acts to be null and void; and acknowledge your very Being as a Council, and, consequently the Validity of your Proceedings, depends upon the Call of the first Church in Springfield: But you deny the Premises, and say, that to let the World see that you did not run before you were called, you will give a Copy of one of the Letters missive: And there we have a Copy signed with five Men's Names, and said to be in the Name of the rest; and then in the next Page, you give a Copy of these Votes of the Church, which are all the Votes of the Church that there ever was respecting this Matter, and there being in them only four Churches mentioned, viz. Those in this County, and not any Mention of one ⟨p. 35⟩of your Churches, that came from far, and no Vote respecting you but only this, Mr. John Burt chosen to go to Boston, as a Messenger to the Elders that Mr. Breck should choose to ordain him. You excuse their Vote's not being more methodical & expressive with that, that the Church had not a Pastor at their Head to guide them, (as if it were usual for Churches to have Pastors to guide them in such Cases:) But you say, the Church chose four of the Elders, and the naming of the other four was left with Mr. Breck, and chose a Committee to manage the Affairs respecting the Ordination, and that one necessary Affair for which they were chosen was to sign Letters to the several Churches. But what does all this signify, as long as it is as plain as 'tis possible any Thing should be, by public Records, that not one of your Churches were ever so much as mentioned in any Vote of the Church, either before Mr. Breck's Nomination or in Consequence of it, neither expressly nor implicitly, neither in Method nor out of Method, neither in any Direction given to the Committee chosen to manage the Affairs of the Ordination nor to the Messenger that was to go to them, nor any other Way? If there was any such Vote, Why is it not produced?

You next proceed to consider our sixth Reason, viz. That the major Part of the Council were not regularly called, even according to your own Principles, and that because the Churches you belonged to were never applied to by Springfield Church. Here you allow the Consequence to be good, and say, If this was so we might well say you intermeddled in an Affair that did not belong to you, and pronounce all your Acts to be null and void; and acknowledge your very Being as a Council, and, consequently the Validity of your Proceedings, depends upon the Call of the first Church in Springfield: But you deny the Premises, and say, that to let the World see that you did not run before you were called, you will give a Copy of one of the Letters missive: And there we have a Copy signed with five Men's Names, and said to be in the Name of the rest; and then in the next Page, you give a Copy of these Votes of the Church, which are all the Votes of the Church that there ever was respecting this Matter, and there being in them only four Churches mention'd, viz. Those in this County, and not any Mention of one