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To what Purpose is it to tell of Springfield Churches failing in the methodicalness of Expression; whether their Votes were more or less methodical it signifies nothing, as long as 'tis as plain as the Sun in the midst of a clear Firmament, that you was never chosen at all by Springfield Church by any Expression or Act at all, either methodical or immethodical. You say the true Intent and Meaning of their Vote is very plain, to any one that has a Mind to understand them, and no Design to pervert them: So it is indeed as plain as Words can make them; 'tis plain that they had a Meaning, utterly inconsistent with congregational Principles, viz. not to choose the Churches that were to be applied to, out of the County, themselves, but to leave that Matter wholly with Mr. Breck; and so it is plain, that according to their Meaning, you were not chosen by the Church themselves, but only by Mr. Breck: And you must stretch the Meaning of their Votes very far, not only to make them have Respect to, but not positively exclude Mr. Cook of Sudbury: The Messenger was directed in the Vote to go to Boston to the Elders that Mr. Breck should choose to ordain him; not a Word of Sudbury: 'Tis not easy, but hard to understand their Meaning, if by Boston they meant Boston and all the Towns twenty Miles round: But whether it was in Boston or out, 'tis certain that Mr. B—k's Choice was all the Warrant you had to come; and so, by your own Confession, Page 40, we might well say you intermeddled with an Affair that did not belong to you, and pronounce all your Acts to be null and void To use your own Words, Page 37, to whom did it belong to choose what Churches should be applied to but the Church itself? So that by your own Principles you were evidently a Company of Busy-bodies; (tho' you make it an intolerable Crime in us, to say that which implied it in ⟨p. 40⟩our Protestation;) and if it be so, will it not follow that you have been the blameable Causes of all the Mischief, and Confusion, and Wounds to Religion, that have attended this Case. You often, with an Air of Triumph, mention it as an Instance of our doing what was none of our Business, that we took the Case into our own Hands before it was referred to us by Springfield Church: We have already shown the Groundlessness and Injustice of such a Charge;

To what Purpose is it to tell of Springfield Churches failing in the methodicalness of Expression; whether their Votes were more or less methodical it signifies nothing, as long as 'tis as plain as the Sun in the midst of a clear Firmament, that you was never chosen at all by Springfield Church by any Expression or Act at all, either methodical or immethodical. You say the true Intent and Meaning of their Vote is very plain, to any one that has a Mind to understand them, and no Design to pervert them: So it is indeed as plain as Words can make them; 'tis plain that they had a Meaning, utterly inconsistent with congregational Principles, viz. not to chuse the Churches that were to be applied to, out of the County, themselves, but to leave that Matter wholly with Mr. Breck; and so it is plain, that according to their Meaning, you were not chosen by the Church themselves, but only by Mr. Breck: And you must stretch the Meaning of their Votes very far, not only to make them have Respect to, but not positively exclude Mr. Cook of Sudbury: The Messenger was directed in the Vote to go to Boston to the Elders that Mr. Breck should chuse to ordain him; not a Word of Sudbury: 'Tis not easy, but hard to understand their Meaning, if by Boston they meant Boston and all the Towns twenty Miles round: But whether it was in Boston or out, 'tis certain that Mr. B—k's Choice was all the Warrant you had to come; and so, by your own Confession, Page 40, we might well say you intermeddled with an Affair that did not belong to you, and pronounce all your Acts to be null and void To use your own Words, Page 37, to whom did it belong to chuse what Churches should be applied to but the Church itself? So that by your own Principles you were evidently a Company of Busy-bodies; (tho' you make it an intolerable Crime in us, to say that which implied it in