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they would do it, and lift up their crests in
high language, and come to such animosi-
ties from the jury's verdict, we desire the
honored court would not count us transgressors
if we do not recede from what we have
done, considering what disturbers they have
been to us, especially one of them, for these
several years. Now, therefore, honored and
dear sirs, seeing by what we have done we
have gone in our own way as a church in
the search after sin, we hope the court will
be tender of us and of him that complained to
us on that account; if not, we humbly crave
that it be not grievous to you that we plainly
tell you that in our judgment the discipline of
these churches must fall; and if so, of what
sad consequence it will be, we leave it to those
that are wiser than ourselves to judge, for this
case being new and never acted before in this
country, doth not only reflect on our church,
but on all the churches in the country; for if
delinquents that are censured in churches shall
be countenanced by authority, against the
church in their acting in a just way, we hum- ,'
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