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Williams of Hatfield's Answer, and how could we think that Mr B—k intended to have his Matters further heard in the Association, when we knew other Measures were then determined upon at Springfield. These Things being so▪ we must of Necessity understand that Expression in Mr. Cooper's Letter Page 50. It is therefore his present Intention (as I understand from himself) to ask them so far to favour him as to give him Liberty to invite two or three other Ministers, when his Affairs are further proceeded in. that he meant he would ask the People, who are mentioned in the foregoing Sentence, so to favour him; Mr. Breck was got past asking any Favour of the Association long before that; and both he and the People had fully determined upon other Things; yea and Mr. Cooper himself too, as appears by what has been already said. Nothing can be more plain than that neither Mr B—k, nor Springfield Church, nor Mr. Cooper, had a Thought of putting the Affair on the Foot of any such Proposal, as joining some others to the Association; for as to Springfield Church, and Mr. Breck, other Things were plainly resolved before Mr. Cooper's Proposal was made; nor did they in the least suspend the Matter to see whether any Proposal of joining others to the Association, would be complied with; for as has been already observed, tho' Mr. Williams of Hatfield, his Answer was not delayed but written with convenient Speed, yet the Church met to choose Ordainers that same Day that he wrote his Answer; and Mr. Cooper himself as soon as ever he receives that which he himself took for an Answer to his Proposal, wherein that very Thing of joining others to us, was earnestly desired of him, he immediately rejects it as not being the Thing that was agreeable to his Mind: So that the whole Face of the Affair, as it then stood on all Sides, rendered it impossible that that Proposal of Mr. Cooper's should be understood otherwise than as we understood it. Hence it appears that we never rejected any Proposal of joining two or three more with the Association, as you say you know we did: Indeed we ever insisted on ⟨p. 46⟩a Proposal that it might be so, and made the Proposal once and again, after we saw that Mr. Breck would not submit his Case to us alone.

Williams of Hatfield's Answer, and how could we think that Mr B—k intended to have his Matters further heard in the Association, when we knew other Measures were then determined upon at Springfield. These Things being so▪ we must of Necessity understand that Expression in Mr. Cooper's Letter Page 50. It is therefore his present Intention (as I understand from himself) to ask them so far to favour him as to give him Liberty to invite two or three other Ministers, when his Affairs are further proceeded in. that he meant he would ask the People, who are mention'd in the foregoing Sentence, so to favour him; Mr. Breck was got past asking any Favour of the Association long before that; and both he and the People had fully determined upon other Things; yea and Mr. Cooper himself too, as appears by what has been already said. Nothing can be more plain than that neither Mr B—k, nor Springfield Church, nor Mr. Cooper, had a Thought of putting the Affair on the Foot of any such Proposal, as joining some others to the Association; for as to Springfield Church, and Mr. Breck, other Things were plainly resolved before Mr. Cooper's Proposal was made; nor did they in the least suspend the Matter to see whether any Proposal of joining others to the Association, would be complied with; for as has been already observed, tho' Mr. Williams of Hatfield, his Answer was not delay'd but written with convenient Speed, yet the Church met to chuse Ordainers that same Day that he wrote his Answer; and Mr. Cooper himself as soon as ever he receives that which he himself took for an Answer to his Proposal, wherein that very Thing of joining others to us, was earnestly desired of him, he immediately rejects it as not being the Thing that was agreeable to his Mind: So that the whole Face of the Affair, as it then stood on all Sides, rendred it impossible that that Proposal of Mr. Cooper's should be understood otherwise than as we understood it. Hence it appears that we never rejected any Proposal of joining two or three more with the Association, as you say you know we did: Indeed we ever insisted on