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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

will be spoken to afterwards Pam. In Page 25 he moves us an Objection as made by us about the Lawfulness of Coll. Fletchers Commission and this he returns over into an Asserting the Kings Right in the Militia Ans 1. As to Their Majesties right in the Militia it hath been owned and that he may grant Commissions accordingly is not to be doubted But this is not the difficulty but whether this Commission do reach any other Militia than what the Laws of the Realm do constitute and this the Pamphlet in words at least yields in our sence for in Page 29. thus he saith This Commission is therefore a Lawful Commission being founded upon the Antient and standing Laws of the Realm If then there be an Inseperable Connection between this Commission and the standing Laws of the Realm and it be founded on them and that Act of 13 14 of Charles II. be such a standing Law then this Commission is measured and limited by that Law which extent of it was never denyed that we know of But 2. If they will extend it to a Militia of another Constitution Viz. The Corporation Constitution then there is matter of Law in it not only to be disputed but to be tryed or at least to be inquired of Their Majesties whether it be Lawful or no in that Extent 3. Their Majesties pleasure may be sought even as to that which the said Act if applyed would take out of our Constitution of the Militia wherein many things may be and we hope are said before them 4. If men that have neither 50 Pound Starling Per. Annum nor 600 Starl in Money or Goods as most with us are such shall refuse the duty of a Souldier in the standing Militia what Law that this Commission is dependant on will condemn them for so doing and this as has been hinted will be our case if the Colony Militia so to call it which is the Kings too in a sence be disolved but of this we gave an account before yet could not well omit this further notice of it Pam. In Page 31. he reflects on the Government as Severe and Sharp Upon any disacknowledgment of our disputable Authority How Bragg and Peremptory should we have been if this Commission in terminis had been given to us Certainly Fire and Faggot or the Noose of an Halter had been good enough for any one that should have offered to oppose it c. Ans 1. Himself sayes that Male contents never want Complaints and Commends a throughness in Government Page 54. p. 58. 2. It is the general complaint that Connecticut Government is too Mild and possible those that know it best will laugh most at this Imagination of Fire and Faggot and the noose of an Halter What error is in Connecticut in these things lies on the other hand Pam. In 31 and 32 Page he speakes of Greedy catching at the Kings Letter of 3. of March last Ans This Their Majesties Letter was very Graciously sent and we hope thankfully and dutifully received and obeyed by us and he needed not speak so of it as Greedily catching but we know to whom that Letter hath been an Eye sore Pam. In Pag. 32 33 34. he charges Ingratitude to Their Majesties on so hard that it is intolerable It was an old Saying Say I am Ingrateful and say any thing but the best of it is he is no fit Judge of any thing concerning Connecticut who is thus Fire hot against us with Rage and we have Their Majesties and moderate Persons to judge herein we acknowledg and wish we could do it better Their Majesties kindness to us and were it not transcendent as the Sky is above the Earth to this mans Spirit we were very Miserable But whether he be within bounds of truth Sobriety or Charity let any one Judge when he saith Shall we requite Love with Hatred Tender Bowels with Malignanty for what else can our behaviour signify but a Malignant Spirit and Inveterat Hatred against the King as King and who ever comes from him as such We have sufficiently declared our Affections to the King and what we should have done if we had Him in our Hands we should soon Rid the World of Kings if we had them in our Power Remember Hazael Is thy Servant a Dog sayes he that he should do this great i. e. this abominable thing Yea but when Temptation and Oppertunity met together he did it notwithstanding and verily so should we Ans This is such a Charge as shows the Pamphleters Spirit in Lively and yet Blackest Colours To take the Altitude of this Promontory this Charge or Surmise Let it be considered 1. That to Imagine the Death of the King is by Law High Treason 2. To Imagine the Death of Kings in General is yet higher or highest Treason 3. That such Imaginings are Sins of the most heinous nature before God 4. That such a People so Spirited are justly to be abhorred of all man-kind Wherefore to Tax a Colony with such Treasons and Impiety to render them an abhorance to all men is so abhorredly Injurious to them That if Cerberus had been brought to Bark at us it is not imaginable he could more Hellishly have performed this task Let Leviticus 19.16 Be here again remembred Thou shalt not walk about with Tales among thy People Thou shalt not stand against the Blood of thy Neighbour I am the Lord. We will set against it the mind of Excellent Owen in his Book of the Dispenssing of the Holy Spirit Fol 517. Where Truth is not universally Observed according to the utmost watchfulness of Sincerity and Love there all other Marks and Tokens of the Image of God in any Persons are not only Sulied but defaced and the Representation of Satan is most prevalent Pam. In Page 34 he demands an Example of us who so ingratful who so disobedient as we c. Ans Supposing us to be such as he just afore affirms us to be we think none are like us or should be so nor do we know any like him for misusing the Kings Subjects in such an horrid degree 2. But if the meaning be who ever did Address a King before they obeyed an Order they had to inquire further on which only is pertinent here as we have done Examples in a greater Latitude then that abound every where For one let Dan. 2.24 25. Compared with the 13 14 15 16. Verses be seen Scores might easily be produced that have acceptably done this as well as we Pam. In Page 35 he thus Interogates us What do we indeed intend to fall off to the French c. Ans When men are thus forming and feeding Chymeraes it is endless and in vain to follow them we are not falling to the French nor from the King and yet for diversion we will tell him that his Counsel If we intend so to do let us speak out is very weak Pam. In Page 36 he urges us with the unseasonableness

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