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B08273	Their Majesties colony of Connecticut in New-England vindicated from the abuses of a pamphlet, licensed and printed at New-York 1694. Intituled, Some seasonable considerations for the good people of Connecticut / by an answer thereunto.	Allyn, John, d. 1696.; Pitkin, William, 1635-1694.	1694 (1694)	Wing A1038; ESTC W34067	31,143	48

great Pitty he did not keep Silence or speak better but if he follow not his own Advice it will impede others to follow it 2. It is not over modest to Emblaz on his own Advices thus as Pearles and how unworthy this his Composure is of such a Representation will not be difficult to an Impartial Reader to Judge of 3. To compare a Colony to harmful Swine is hard and yet harder when if we be so in respect of the Advice in 1689. in a manner all the People of New-England are so But such a whole Sale Champman that thus Barters all our Credite will deserve an Examination 4. Here begins what is carried on all along his Book namely a misapplication of Holy Scripture Whether this be not a great Prophaning the Holy Name of GOD is more meet for others to Consider than for us here to say What are his Advices to be Similized with the truths of the Gospel which are the Pearls there spoken of or is New-Englands not attending those things from him and others of his Opinion to be represented and made abominable by the fellest Persecution against the Gospel The Excesses of this kind and the Rating and Blemishing if not Curssing us by the mouth of Scripture are no small Scandal to us and we desire it may be well considered by the Pious Readers But this notwithstanding he proceeds to tell us Pamphlet That he hopes the case is not so desperate Answer We hope so too yet he all along gives us up as in the most desperate hopeless posture Pamphlet He then pleads it his duty Thou shalt not hate thy Brother in thy heart but shall Rebuke him c. Answer If any can reasonably judge that more of hatred and less of Love could be exerted by the Pamphleter than is to be found in him here they may believe he hath performed this as his duty But we may not dwell on every Particular Let it be noted that the Scripture here aleadged as a warrant to this Book is Levit 19.17 and the verse next before it Viz. 16. is Thou shalt not walk about with Tales among thy People thou shalt not stand against the Blood of thy Neighbour I am the Lord. Which seems as full and direct a prohibition of this his work as redily can be found in the Bible 2. Having thus Prefaced himself our Adviser or rather judge and Connecticut People the Objects of his pleasure in the Second place in Page 1st 2d He calls to a Serious Attention by Scriptures and Arguments no less weighty than his Occasion and use of them are Slighty as will appear we need not transcribe him Answer All the things he proposes that are true are Obvious and have been considered and needed not his Repetition 2. This like many other things is a Representing us to the World as Ignorant and Inconsiderate to an Excels But these Artifices every candid Reader will easily detect to whom we refer it to consider whether the following things in that Pamphlet be adapted to our Advice and consideration or to Breath out his own Spirit against us and to furnish ill minded men with matter and words to defame us to ensnare the more unwary into hard thoughts and many into groundless fears 3. His Prefacing thus ended in Page 3. He tells of the Commission of Leiutenancy over the Militia of this Colony His Excellency Sir William Phipps had and saith Pamphlet But upon notice hereof a General Assembly was called and met and there it was Resolved Not to submit to it nor to take any notice of Sir William Phipps in that capacity Ans 1. That His Excellency Sir William Phipps in His Commission had such a Leiutenancy Granted by Their Majesties and that the General Court met is true 2. That His Excellency did give an account of it and desired to know what Officers were in Commission and at length sent a Copy of that His Commission is also true 3. That the General Court at their meeting did send His Excellency an account what our intentions were as to Addressing Their Majesties in that behalf and that in the Interim the Military Officers were to good Satisfaction is also true 4. As to the Resolve of the Court here asserted We say these things 1. That it seems to be of absolute necessity to the ends of the Pamphlet to charge such Resolves and Acts of the Court upon them with Rising in Arms c. Else they could not make out Opposing Their Majesties and so lay a foundation large enough to Superstruct all the revilings and menaces that for the ends he had before him must be used 2. If such a Resolve were our Governour who was then in Court must put the Question which it did Resolve and this is an high Reflection on him 3. Since this Pamphlet was Licensed at York and things of this nature Asserted in it it behoved in Justice that he had Attested Copies or other Equivalent assurance of it ere he thus expose us 4. We love not such course words as to tell the World that what is so said is an absolute Lye and yet this we must say if we will say the truth for there was no such Question put nor no such Resolve made and we challenge them to prove it that say it and who that finds such things so certified and hears no other would doubt the truth of it or demurr to conclude us Direct Opposers of Their Majesties But we have more of this kind to come in yet wherein an amazing Impudent Falsifying is used against us 5. It will not heal the evil to make a Subterfuge of any inferences from other things as arguing such a Resolve for 't is matter of Fact that is here asserted and not brought in as a Consequence of what was matter of Fact for that had been but Opinion whereas this is Exhibited as a Court Act or Resolve Pam. He saies further At another General Assembly we resolve to to Address Their Majesties forthwith and yet no Address is made to Their Majesties Ans It is not true to say no Address is made we did forthwith with all possible diligence send our Address that we have no account of it is from other causes than our not sending It is a very sad thing thus openly to be rendred as meer dissemblers with Sir William and Their Majesties Especially but this is the measure that is mete us and surely Mr. Clarkson gave his Imprimatur on very fallible grounds to this Pam. After which Sir William Phipps making some further demands in the Spring 1693. we promised to pay him some Hundreds of Pounds and to take upon us the defence of the upper Towns upon the River belonging to the Massachusetts As if these things would Satisfy Their Majesties Commission and these things in Page 6. he calleth a Composition with Sir William Phipps which gives his meaning and what he would suggest and have believed in the World as to the Transactions between

of our Acting from the time in which we are Addressing Their Majesties and with his usual Severity Ans If we should for once gratifie his humor and say we mist it therein yet what is he better than Esops Doctor to the Dead man the case was sent away to England and that before he wrote and he is too late to help it Pam. In Page 36 he grows Jocous and t is all that he is pleasant in in the whole Book and but sour there too he Masquerades tells us that our Great Champion our Goliah leaves us in the Lurch the Stone is Sunk in his forhead c. And shall we yet harden our selves c. Ans He uses a great Liberty we know none that have so Lurched us though the Stone of a Slander that one took a great Bribe at York has been cast at one of us but it s most like to be found in another forehead Pam. In Page 37 he propounds the Event to Consideration and this he Predicts will be 1. That Friends will be ashamed of us Enemies will Insult Ans We think his Friends if he have any wise ones will be ashamed of him for his Trifling and abusive use of Sacred and Serious things and that his and our Enemies will insult upon us with this weapon he hath so unadvisedly or maliciously put into their hands Pam. His Second Prognostick is That the King and Councel expects better things of us Ans He is all along too bold to give the Kings sence it has been said of a Chancelour in some cases that he that knew the Chancelours mind knew the Kings mind but we have no assurance that this mans Perception is so deep Pam. His Third Presage is that That we Prejudice Their Majesties Interests frustrate Their Intentions defeat Their Counsels c. Ans 1. As we justly dislike his fore Staling Their Majesties Judgment so we do but a little fear it though that be evidently designed by his Book and he may move in his own Orb and not Soar with his Icarian Wings so near the Sun alass little thing why thus Cheek by Jole with the Soveraign power will he perform the thing through thee we know a divine Sentence is in the Lips of the King and that our Judgement cometh forth from the Lord. 2. Let it be remembred that we do take care of our duty in respect of the War and are out great charge as hath been said We will pass over his fond Conceits in Page 39 of the French Concluding that they have Connecticut to Friend at least in a posture of Neutrality and that of the Maquaes being put to go to the French as Instances only of one that wants to Sleep and that of the Commission as what we had before with this Intimation that Connecticut hath also the Kings Broad Seal for their Corporation Militia Pam. In Page 40 he falls afresh to rating at us Do we not know That to Levy War against the King is High Treason c. That an Actual Rebellion or Insurrection is a levying War against the King That a gathering Forces for the Removal of Councellors Altering of Laws c. is levying of War against the King That the holding a Fort or Castle by force of Arms against the King and His Power is a levying War against the King c. Ans 1. We must refer to what hath be said chiefly for answer to these things to avoid vain and tedious Repetitions but as these things are applyed unto us we may say as Nehemiah to Sanbalat Chap. 6. v. 8. There are no such things as though sayest but thou feignest them out of thine own heart 2. Hath not Connecticut an uncondemned right to somewhat of a Militia Why may we not in the reverss charge as hard those that interupt us especially considering that the General Government is under Their Majesties yet in the Corporations hand to which particular Officers though by Patent one would think should stand in some Subordination But it may be said that we mistake him he doth not charge us with Treason levying War against the King he layes it only as a ground to argue from as he doth Pam. What Construction then do we think it will have If we shall be found to Rise in Arms against the Kings Lieutenant Publishing His Commission and Commanding Obedience unto it and by Force and Arms to with-hold the Militia and all Forces by Sea and Land and all Forts and places of strength in a whole Colony or Province from the King against His plain Commission Published under the great Seal Ans 1. The if that all this is propounded with makes it like a wet Eale hard to take any hold on or how to use it but he intends not to beat Air but to strike us in these things and because here he seems to clench most of his Coblery we say 2. If he argue from the former of Treason c. to this of our holding which he will call with-holding the Militia that the latter is as great as bad as the former or worse then we did not mistake him and indeed his sence Suites best his Scope in the whole Book But 3. If he argue from the greater to the lesser there is no great force in it for though it be Fellony to kill a Man yet it is not so to kill a Fly though a man may not Rob yet he may stand a Tryal in Law for what he hath held quietly a long time on a good tenure ere he Surrender and if finally he should be Ejected yet a Tryal is due to him ere a delivery is due from him 4. All a long the Pamphlet beggs and not proves the main question for he still runs away with this that our Charter now gives us no use of any Militia at all and on that Supposition he builds in a manner all his discourse but this we differ from him in and take it our right to have Their Majesties and the Laws descission in 5. What if after all this his Scuffle to bring our heads within his halter the Charter and his Excellencies Commission should be found to refer to divers Militia's the one to a Corporation Militia as formed by the General Court to our necessity and without which we are undone and the other to the Kings Militia according to the 13 and 14 of Charles II. Or which is almost the same that they should refer to the same Militia in divers respects Namely the one to what of our Militia falls not within the verges of that Act forementioned and the other to what of it that Act will on tryal be found to Comprehend will not this reconcile the Charter and Commission Or what if the Law or Their Majesties Grace will firm our former and present Station in these things these things are not only possible but hopeful and he might have staid his hand and not have run out upon us as Traitors as worse than Turks as dispisers of