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Rev. Xamue[ _V/zili_. 145
Re_ly of the General Court.
"Vpon consideration of the petition of sun-
dry" of the reuerend elders, declaring the deepe
& afflictive sence of some voates past in May,
t67o, in the House of Deputies, (vpon the
returne of parte of a coffaittee, chosen by the
honord Court to inquire into the causes of
Gods displeasure,) which they conceive to re-
flect great reproach & scandall on the ministry
in generall, & that demonstrated by an act
referring to the third church in Boston, wherein
some in particular are charrecterized as abettors
in the constituting that church, & thereby rendered
as the troublers in our Israell,& as the
Achans, &d,being an act infringing of church
& gospell liberties, & the free excercise of all
ordinances by churches w+_in themselues, &c',
although it must be asserted, that the acts of
this honoured Court, being the supreme au-
thority, are not liable to qu_estion by any, &
that free debates are the indubitable right of
the said Court, yet, forasmuch as in an hower
of temptation such acts may passe in our Court
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