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The Substance of a Council Held at Lancaster - 14

adapting 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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