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Rev. Samuel Whiling. 139<br />

thing wch hath provoked divine wrath, & doth<br />

further threaten distruction, & w'hall plainly in-<br />

sinuating that the ministry are the Achan, the<br />

cheife incendarjes of wrath & procurers of judg-<br />

ment on the land ; (as if in casting the lott for<br />

God,) they were taken, & the accursed thing<br />

found wth them, giving instance in the late<br />

solemne transaction of churches & elders in<br />

the constitution of the third church in Boston,<br />

as irregular, illegall, & disorderly, & so a suffi-<br />

cient signall of the whole discouery.<br />

Much honoured: A consciousnesse to our<br />

oune vnworthyness, of insufficjency vnto vn-<br />

proffitablenesse in that holy worke whereunto<br />

God hath called us, doth compell vs humbly &<br />

patiently to beare w'soeuer shame & reproach<br />

he shall suffer to be cast vpon vs, acknowledging<br />

ourselues to be lesse than the least of all<br />

saints, not worthy to be called the ministers of<br />

Christ; yet the conscience of our oune inno-<br />

cency as to the whole of this charge, (so farr as<br />

it is criminall,) & wee hope a sincere & sober<br />

zeale for the glory of God & the honor of the<br />

gospell, doe imbolden & move vs to appeare as

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