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Gentlemen, William Smith the that if they would promile not to with the mob and difperfe them, i that when he found Mr. Jenkins making fuch a promife, he fays, quences:" So that it does feem to leaft, equally guilty with all thofe.

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"Really, Gentlemen, where religion is this country; where we hear of a most respect PHILIPS, every Sunday attending his flock; came to introduce darkness rather than light, fion. The people had been tried before wh of this fort into the parish of Bardfield; ti. thought they might have gone elsewhere. America full of heathens; there was the co } there, rather than oppose Mr. PHILIPS. W. affembled in a baking-house. A houfe where t all the week, was on the Sunday morning t there had been a general diflike of these peop! witneffes whether they did not meet with Mr. C fay they did not, but when a man is to be f fent I don't know where, from his wife and f little, the motive from which he firft interfered this teftimony when he faid, "you, Mr. Parfor into fits." This shows what was the object of M of thofe perfons, whether true or falfe, I will n the answer was, they had been disturbing the cl

[The learned Serjeant, after expatiating u tempt to awaken the wicked inhabitants of Grea troducing the Gospel of Chrift among them; the guilt of the rioters, who on this importar zeal, against Repentance and Reformation, co following remarkable words.]

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"Gentlemen, I doubt not but you fee, it that religion their forefathers profeffed; a ze brought forth thefe men, and not that " it. These are most of them labouring men, t and juft, they have not the capacity you or I if the intention was good; if thefe men are forry have offended; and I conceive this to be the c to the Laws of the Country! under these circur. and under these circumftances I now fubmit it

* This filly ftory, about the Preacher's many able heads and active hands, were a lon rolling and forming it into a tenacious fubfte piping hot from the p-r-n's oven into the frangible ftuff, that it dropt all to pieces, to t the Rioters and their worthy Fellow-labourers !

+ Zeal for the good old Caufe !]--By this e does the learned Serjeant mean,-the good c which was in its meridian fplendor in this cou Then indeed the zeal of its devotees burft for illuminated all the inhabitants in the vicinity and his execrable crew, adopted the expedition ing pious Proteftants from their mental errors,

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