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12017-11-05T14:17:51-08:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a72001(annotation)plain2017-11-05T14:17:51-08:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aadapting them in a better Manner than they have latterly done to the Use and Benefit of their Hearers it wou'd be much more for our Edification and their Credit. Can it redound to the Honor of our Profession, the Time our Ministers ought to spend in reading and studying the Scriptures, is taken up in Writing Lampoons, Satires and Libels upon the honorable and worthy Speaker of the Assembly in this Province, and his Son the Governor of a Neighbouring one, and who has been no way concern'd in our late Controversies? How can our Brethren in the Jersey ever with any Face request that Gentleman to do them any Kindness, when we here have basely insulted him in the most scurrilous and inhuman Manner? what is the unpardonable Crime our Assembly has committed? Why that great one of contending with the P—r, whether he shall pay his own taxes or we shall pay them for him; I confess the reason of my leaving my native Country was to get clear of oppresive Land lords, and paying of Tithes;—And while the Assembly is defending me from the first, I shall always admire their Firmness and Integrity; neither shall I ever willingly contribute to the latter, tho' it were to the establishing of you Sir (speaking to the Moderator) in this Congregation. I love my Profession
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12016-08-19T12:58:43-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aThe Substance of a Council Held at Lancaster - 141The Substance, of a council held at Lancaster August the 28th 1764. By a committee of Presbyterian ministers and elders deputed from all parts of Pennsylvania, in order to settle the ensuing election of members for the Assembly. Published, at the request of their respective congregations.2016-08-19T12:58:43-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a