Phineas Pratt admission records, 1764-1765

To the Church of Christ In Granville Christian Bretheren! I Still Continue My Complaints to You Because of Your Hard & unbrotherly Carriage towards me which are as follows viz. I Being a Member of the Church of Christ in Worcester in full Communion and in God's Standing in that Church, I Did By a Letter of Recommendtn & Dismission from that Church offer myself to join & Imbody as a Member in full in Communion with You; But Part of You Refused to to Admit me into Your Communion; alledging against me that I was a Person unfit for Communn By Reason of my Being (as they said) Not Sound in principals. Because I then Held & Do Yet Hold that if I see or know of any Brother that Trans =gresses or Breakes the Law of God, I only knowing it & There Being no other Proof Thereof But my own knowledge, that in Such Case it is Lawfull & Right for me to withdraw from Communing with him in the Church untill Such times as I Can Bring him to Acknowledg his fault_______ But the Major Part of You Held this Principall to be a Matter not Sufficient to Bar me from Communion, But the other Part of You Who Held that Principal a Matter Sufficient to Bar me from Communion Took an opportunity when Seveeral of Those who were not not against me in my said opinion were absent and those obtained a vote a vote ^in ye church against me to preclude me from your Communion_______I then carrid My Complaint to the Assosiation who Considered Thereof and Judged that My Said opinion was not a matter of Scandal or Sufficient to Preclude me from Communion. and they advised Both You & me to a Councill to Be held here in this Town; But the Revd Mr Tuttle (the Then Pator of your Church) Wholly Refused to Comply With thier advice _____ A And So to My Greate Grief Matters Still Remain Unsettled which is Greately Detrimentia^al to my Character and Christian walk_____ and So Day Praying that my Wrongs May Be Redressed I Sub= =scribe Myself Your Well Wisher in the Lord Granville Dec.r 27. 1764 Phinehas Pratt