84             150              1676.

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 Wherin we conceive he has broaken the 5 comand, as alsoe finding fault

with what the Church Expressed their agreement about, & that before several of o^r

own Toun & theirs & that before he had spoaken a word to y^e Church to convince

y^m of any evill y^ei had done in what y^ei agreed about,

his contemptious & irreverent speeches to his aged uncle Deacon Jewitt saying you

are y^e cause of another Toun meeting by your disorderly going away from y^e last when

those y^t suited y^or turn were Chosen Select men you could stay & like it well

Enough but when others were chosen y^t pleased not you, then you brake away

disorderly alsoe uncle was told [-] S P was speaking what care I who is speaking

2 his breach of the 9^th comand in yt though he had lifted up his hand to

                                                                 upon y^e set

the councills determination yet as a ringleader to y^e Tounsmen he cals to

know y^e Touns mind for M^r Shepards preeching againe & when it was voted

                 he

in that way it was went & he onely of y^e church y^t I know of to that compa

ny that were for voating; he never came to me nor noe one of y^e church but

one to speak about trying the churches mind ffor M^r Shepards preching

 3 he has alsoe violated the 8 comand w^ch requires that we noe way wrong another

in y^t w^ch is their due but he publicly before church & Toun say^d y^t noe more

                                                 not

was to be allowed to S P but 60^lb a year & he would pay his share for any

more & before the Toun he say^d he would for a greater man pay all above

                                                      not

60^lb a year: now this was very unrighteous that I should have not a penny

incorragemt for my years labour nor soe much by 10^lb as I had when y^r was

two; w^ch was aggravated in y^t he considerd not hims to act soe unrighteously

himself but stir^d up church & Toun what in him lay to doe as he did.

It was shown him that his unchristian carriage in these things was much

aggravated by y^s y^t he was leader now the cheif in military affairs y^t

he should be a leader in disorderly carriage & y^e cheif instrument to break y^e

churches peac again

he was warned as y^e apostle charges such shall be 1 Thess 5 14 & desi

red to consider of those Scriptures 6 prov 14 & 15 18 & 21 24 & 28 25 &

29 22. as alsoe 2 Tim 3: 2 3 4 disobedient to parents truce breakers feirc

heady highminded these Evills have in noe little degree appeared in him

It was shown him also that in these thing he had very much walked

contrary to y^e solemn Covenant he made w^th God & his pp when he was

admitted a member : w^ch agreemt[57] is vide at y^e beginning of church records

Though these offences were publick yet thinking it might be most loving

& freindly to speak of them to him in private I accordingly soe did

The use he made of it was to present what followes is wrighting.

 

         Philip Nelson his answer to the accusations lay^d to his

         charg

I for my own part cannot but be deeply sensible of the great displeasure

 of the most holy God in these unhappy divisions that are amongst

 us (especially in y^s day of Jacobs trouble) when o^r country is turned as it

were into a feild of blood, for those many provocations that have bin &

are found amongst us, & I pray God that we in this place by o^r unbrother

=ly contest have had noe smal hand in y^e procuring causes of these our

desolations; & wherin my self have bin any way instrumentall to procure

the same, I desire deeply to be humbled & in y^e first place to bewayle the

plague of my own heart: But as to the particulars w^ch our Reveren^d