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x    Ans: / Bro: Wood might have playnly told & Nehemiah & not have cont-

                                                      w^h appears not

=inued  that w^ch was injuri^s to Nehemiah M^r Phillips   But 2. it playn

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=ly appeares that that hath not bin Bro: Woods Spirit. ffor  1 He goes

not about to Recover any dammage of Nehemiah but putts M^r

phillips upō haste  to come to tearmes &c.: or also he shall not ––––

2. He offers to compound w^th M^r phillips, by w^ch act he doth

Let Nehemiah escape, he can not recover dammages of Nehemiah if

he give m^r Phillips y^e Land on any tearms , ffor he Him Self alters

y^e Case from what it was &c:   Other hot words passt, I sayd

they were as guilty as Hims: and I must say that as unfitt for

to Come to y^e Sacrament as he was; if moderately they would dis-

=course & be free to Rec: further Light in Love I could partake

w^th them.            They had at first desired the Sacrament

might be deferred, saying, the whole Town allmost were in a brisle

about it:  Upon Speech w^th m^r P:^s y^e next morning, we concluded

not to to divert y^e Sacram^t. not knowing but y^r was a pollicy

of Satan in it to Scandalize y^e Church as if y^y were divided

& unfit for Communiō; when it may be y^e Report of y^e Brethre

might be Hyperbolicall.  2. To Countenance y^e seemingly unjust

Cause of Bro: Wood, as if it had more patrons, & y^y were lesse

Evill in it self, then it had or seemed to have had . 3. It was

an uniting ordinance to y^e worthy Receiv^rs; if any did w^thdraw, y^r

own sin had caused that, for w^ch others should not suffer.

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Sept. 11 (67) It was brought before the church, betw: w^ch & y^e form^r Agitations Bro:

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Wood, the fence betw: M^r phillips & Him was pull^d down, w^ch he

say^d he knew not of before ‘twas done, but being done approved it

At this Meeting. M^r phillips related as formerly & added ye abuse of y^e

Ordinance of Magistracy [not to live honestly But] to colour his Injustice.

I Tim. 3. 1.2. /  Most of what was say^d betw: Brethren privately

ut Suprà. was agayn urged  And answered as before  And moreover

y^s thing added in Defence.  Obj: 1. Bro: Wood did not get the Deed

as Nehemiah confirmed. ‘twas Nehemiahs act, Bro: Wood passive, wisht

it ner had bin done? if Nehemiah will confirme it, it is not in his power

to hinder it!  Ans: Bro: Wood 1. he doth now impres should manifest

a willingn: to Resigne y^t w^ch he knowes is M^r phillips his own

that is in his pow^r when he hath it   but he doth not, he keepes

what is not his own;  So y^t after actings doe manifest that He

was active in taking.  i.e. did Consent  out saltem post factum[75]

(Now a man ought not to consent. Psal. 50. w^h Eph. 5.11. /

 

2. Obj: / M^r Phillips neglected a Duty of getting Land Recorded &c. accord

=ing to Law & that is an ordinance of God & all y^e Inconvenience

that comes by that meanes he must beare. if a man buoy his an

=chor all ships y^t are struck upon it is y^r own fault. & dammage

if no buoy  it lyes on Him that layd the Anchor. &c: