About […] Weeks after I had done, come• down an Anabaptist from London, to a Town Seven […] Miles distant from me, and writes me • Letter, informing me, That he was one that ••d walk in Gospel-Communion with Col. Danvers, (sometimes he stiles him Esq Danvers) then writes to me thus. You have cast the Odium of Falsehood and Forgery upon his Book to your Auditory: If it was to deter your Hearers from reading his Book, it doth demonstrate the badness of your Cause, in that you are not willing it should be inspected. If you design thereby to degrade the Gentleman, as infamous, though unknown, you have therein greatly erred,—therefore I request you on the behalf of Col. Danvers, that you be pleased to do him the common Justice, as to publish to the World in Print, what you have spoken in your more private Meetings, by way of detection of his Forgery,—and not only to Print what you have traduced him ⟨image 4⟩with, but also any other new things you have Preached, that will lend any assistance to your Infant-Baptism, that this Gentleman doth endeavour to throw down as a spurious thing;—several of your own Party have written against him, but he, with others, have so answered them, that they have set down silent under—The Colonel hath a better Character than you give of him,—he hath a large Portion of this Worlds goods, &c. Thus he runs on in commendation of the Colonel, and ends it in such a way, that neither I, nor others that read the Letter, could understand his meaning.
About 〈…〉 We•ks after I had done, come• down an An••aptist from London, to a Town Seven 〈…〉 Miles distant from me, and writes me • Letter, informing me, That he was one that ••d walk in Gospel-Communion with Col. Danvers, (sometimes he stiles him Esq Danvers) then writes to me thus. You have cast the Odium of Falshood and Fergery upon his Book to your Auditory: If it was to deter your Hearers from reading his Book, it doth demonstrate the badness of your Cause, in that you are not willing it should be inspected. If you design thereby to degrade the Gentleman, as infamous, though unknown, you have therein greatly erred,—therefore I request you on the behalf of Col. Danvers, that you be pleased to do him the common Justice, as to publish to the World in Print, what you have spoken in your more private Meetings, by way of detection of his Forgery,—and not only to Print what you have traduced him ⟨image 4⟩with, but also any other new things you have Preached, that will lend any assistance to your Infant-Baptism, that this Gentleman doth endeavour to throw down as a spurious thing;—several of your own Party have written against him, but he, with others, have so answered them, that they have set down silent under—The Collonel hath a better Character than you give of him,—he hath a large Portion of this Worlds goods, &c. Thus he runs on in commendation of the Collonel, and ends it in such a way, that neither I, nor others that read the Letter, could understand his meaning.
