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How can it be but that Judges that have been concerned and have acted in a Cause, and then have the Caus• taken from them, under a Notion of their being unjust Judges, and referred to other Judges, if they appear before these superior Judges to give an Account of the Cause to them, but that it must be in effect to have their own Conduct wherein they acted as Judges, tried and judged? And that this was what you designed in your Proposal, seems to appear by your treating us with such Neglect and Contempt, when we sought an Opportunity of conferring with you, not coming in the Way you had proposed, in the Form of an Association with our Moderator at our Head.

How can it be but that Judges that have been concerned and have acted in a Cause, and then have the Caus• taken from them, under a Notion of their being unjust Judges, and referred to other Judges, if they appear before these superiour Judges to give an Account of the Cause to them, but that it must be in effect to have their own Conduct wherein they acted as Judges, tried and judged? And that this was what you designed in your Proposal, seems to appear by your treating us with such Neglect and Contempt, when we sought an Opportunity of conferring with you, not coming in the Way you had proposed, in the Form of an Association with our Moderator at our Head.

In Page 58, &c. you endeavour to excuse yourself from the Charge of Violence and Driving in your Proceedings, which we say showed your Prejudice, by relating particularly how long it was after the sending forth the Letters missive, before you went on the Business to Springfield; and having then met with an unusual Interposition that hindered your proceeding at the Time appointed, it was more than three Months longer before you actually ordained Mr. Breck. But what does it signify how many Months it was after the Letters missive were sent forth, before you actually came, as long as it was immediately determined by you upon your Receipt of the Letters missive, that you would come? When once you was sent to, the Matter was not suspended at all; and it appeared by all your Letters and Replies, that you was immovable in your Resolutions to come, tho' you were so much, and often desired to suspend such a Resolution, by earnest Remonstrances from the Rev. Mr. W—ms of Hatfield, the senior Minister in the County, and from another of us that formerly had been treated as a particular Friend of the Rev. Mr. Cooper, and also from the Rev. Dr. Colman, the senior Minister among you: It evidently appeared that nothing would prevail with you to reconsider the Matter; nothing would stop or alter you. It was earnestly desired of you as we signify in our Words