An answer to W.R. his narration of the opinions and practises of the churches lately erected in Nevv-England.: Vindicating those Godly and orthodoxall churches, from more then an hundred imputations fathered on them and their church way, by the said W.R. in his booke. Wherein is plainely proved, 1. That the grounds of his narration are sandie and insufficient. 2. That the maner of his handling it, unloving and irregular. 3. That the matter of it, ful of grosse mistakes & divers contradictions. 4. That the quotations extremely wrested, and out of measure abused. 5. That his marginall notes impertinent and injurious. / By Thomas Welde, Pastour of the Church of Roxborough in Nevv-England. This is licensed and entred according to order.

Answer to the Title. A Narration of some Church-courses generally held in opinion, and practised by the Churches lately erected in New-England.

[Answer.] LEt the Reader mind well the latitude of W. R. his undertaking in his booke. It is to make a Narration (not of some particu∣lar mens practises here and there in New-England, (but of the opini∣ons and practises of whole Churches there, and) not of some one or two Churches (for that is too narrow, still for his scope,) but of THE CHVRCHES in New-England (indefinitely.) And that you may know for certain he means to tell you what [all] the Churches there doe hold and practise, and (not sometimes, but) in their constant course (he saith plainly,) they are the Church courses GENERALLY held by the Churches in New-England, which he will declare; So that though he speakes but of some Church courses, yet those he doth mention must be such, as are generally held and practised by the Churches there. The performance of which in its latitude (let him know) we expect, and if he comes short of this, unlesse he revoke his title, he will doe us wrong.