88.     154          1677

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Admitted July 2 1676. The other viz M^r Neh Jewitt was not for some

time after because he had not procured his dismission from Lyn Church w^ch

he had joyned many years since when he lived with his uncle Purchas at

the Ironworks, having obtayned letter of dismission from y^e say^d Church March

12. 1677. The letter was read before the congregation as followeth.

 

         To the Revr^nd Elder & beloved Brethren of the Church of Christ at

          Rowley in God the father & Jesus Christ the Son of the father

           and in y^e holy Ghost your Sanctifier & comforter grace & peace

            be multiplied.

Forasmuch as it hath pleased almighty God (who boundeth out all our

Habitations) to Remove from us to you our beloved Brother M^r Neh: Jew

=it, & he haveing desired Letters of dismission from our church to yours

we doe therfore wholly dismiss him to your care & trust, intreating you

to watch over him in y^e lord as becometh Saints, to help him in what

=soever he stands in need of you, to succoer, strengthen & releev him in

whatsoever affliction or temptation he may be cast into, as God shall be

pleased of his grace to inable you . Thus with our hearty love &

prayers for you & him, beseaching the lord to make you mutuall comforts

one to another we take our leave and rest, comending you to god and

to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up farther & to give

you an inheritance with the saints.

 

                                Yours truely in him who is

                                      love & truth

                                 Samuel Whiting Senior

                                with y^e consent of the brethren of

                                      the church of Christ in Lyn

                      (March 18 76)

When this letter was read (considering the Churches former vote

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three quarters of a year before viz June 20 1676) I desired M^r Neh Jew

=itt to come forth & to declare what God had done for his soule, upon w^ch

when I expected noe opposition B^r Homes stood up & say^d he had mattre of

offence against him: I told him I could not orderly give him liberty

now to mention any thing that way seing he had stood propounded most of

a year in which time he had suffitient oppertunity to have dealt with

M^r Neh. Jewitt as he had formerly bin advised his answer was it was in

vain to speak to him he was soe full of Squels[58] & Scornes & highflown

speeches upon this M^r Neh: Jewit say^d he hoped the church would take no=

=tice of such a high charg  

Then M^r Nelson stood up and say^d I declare against his admission then a

3^d B^r Samuel Mighhell desired I would not thrust a member upon y^e

church, I told him he was not the Church, & I was not about any such thing

as he did by his Speech seem to charg me or Imply.

Upon y^s one brother desiring I would grant liberty to B^r Homes to bring his

complaints before the officer & some brethren with him, after the next

lecture March 21 1677 I told him & y^e whole church I shuld per