Power of Privileges, for a Church thus to give up their
Power of Election in any Infance to particular Perfons
another Way; for 'tis a Power of Privilege that is vext
ed in every Brother to have a Hand in the Election, and
one Way wherein they have a Right to have a Hand in
it is, to have Liberty of offering their Objections to the
reft of their Brethren, againft thofe that are nominated
before they are choſen: But if the Church don't chufe
at all, but give away their Power to particular Perfons,
they will have no Opportunity for this: As in this Cafe
there was no Mention made in the Church meeting,
who were to be choſen; and thofe who would have
objeſted had no Opportunity for it. But then, Thirdly,
Nothing can be more plain and manifeſt, than that it
never was what the Church meant, to give that Com-
mittee Power to chufe for them; 'tis utterly inconfiſtent
with their own Votes; becauſe 'tis moſt plainly implied
in thofe Votes, that they give that Power to fome Body
elfe that did not yet belong to their Church, viz. to Mr.
Breck: for tho' there is nothing in their Votes mention'd
about the Committee's chufing. Churches, yet there is this
Vote relating to Mr. Breck, that we will repeat again
Mr. John Burt choſen to go to Boſon as a Meſsenger to
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tee that they have empowered to chuse for them, and
in their Names; but neither of thefe, we have now
shown, ever was in this Cafe, unlefs Mr. Breck was their
Committee, which you iftrenoufly deny, Page 41, and
bring Arguments to prove that he was not, which you
suppofe in Oppofition to us, juft as if we, when we faid
they made Mr. Breck their Committee, intended that
the Church had formally paffed a Vote, wherein they
had ufed the Expreſſion, and had in Terms voted that
*he should be their Committee.* We don't deny but that
Mr. Breck's nominating yourChurches, might have been
confident with your being chofen by the Church, if he
had only *nominated to the Church*, and the Church had
then voted according to his *Nominations*; but inſtead of
this he was left to nominate and chufe too; his Nomi-
nation (if you will do call it) was after the Church-
meeting was broke up, and was never brought to any
Church-meeting at all, to fee whether the Church would
vote it or not: So that you was not chofen by the Church
*before you came*, and therefore *run before you was called*;
and you iftrenoufly deny, yourſelf, Page 43, that you
was accepted as a Council, by any Vote of the Church
after you came. You make a Sppofition, Page 44, that
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