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142 Memoir of
present, personal, & passionate concerne in the
interest of a party, as appeares by the instance
of the business of the third church, & so of a
designe to scandelize that pretious church of
Christ, at least to hinder the consuNation &
confirmation of that worke of God, by the
peaceable setlement of that church in actuall
& full co.union wth all other churches.
6. By a misrepresentation of that weighty &
worthy transaction vndertaken & managed in a
regular way, to an orderly issue, it doth deepely
charge & calumniate magistrates & churches,
& consequently elders & church messengers,
wtu dangerous designe, yea, wth a crime of in-
fringing gospell & church libertjes, w'1_breach
of lawe, & that in a t:actious way, by abetting
& incouraging that which is illegall, vnto the
begetting & nourishing of confusion, breaches,
disunion, & divission, & the manifest violation
of rules, both of religion & order; allw ch is
illustrated (in that paper)by the premised examples
of Davids noumbering the people, of
Gideons ephod, & of Eljes indulgence, thereby
loading so great a part of the magistrates,