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A letter to the author of the pamphlet called An answer [sic] to the…A letter to the author of the pamphlet called An answeer [sic] to the…
A letter to the author of the pamphlet called An answer [sic] to the Hampshire narrative. : [Three lines from Proverbs]A letter to the author of the pamphlet called An answeer [sic] to the Hampshire narrative. : [Three lines from Proverbs]
Boston: : s.n., Printed in the year 1737
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You say, Page 69, that it makes it look still worse in us, that we should mention this young Gentleman's reading those Testimonies, to represent Mr. Kirtland and Mr. Clap to be Liars, that these Gentlemen notwithstanding, a Week or two after, assisted in his Ordination. 'Tis true, those reverend Ministers, tho' so abused by this young Gentleman, did exercise an admirable Spirit of Meekness in this Affair; for some of the People that he was settling amongst were exceedingly disgusted at it. And had Mr. Clap been disposed to recant he could have hurt his Interest there; but on the contrary he laboured very much to quiet the People's Minds, ⟨p. 59⟩and to pacify them towards him. And when he was discoursed with about it he did not justify what he had done; and those Gentlemen assisted in his Ordination. And we can't see that their Moderation and good Temper in so easily passing over the Injury, can reflect any Blame upon us, for reciting a Fact so publicly transacted.
You say, Page 69, that it makes it look still worse in us, that we should mention this young Gentleman's reading those Testimonies, to represent Mr. Kirtland and Mr. Clap to be Liars, that these Gentlemen notwithstanding, a Week or two after, assisted in his Ordination. 'Tis true, those reverend Ministers, tho' so abused by this young Gentleman, did exercise an admirable Spirit of Meekness in this Affair; for some of the People that he was settling amongst were exceedingly disgusted at it. And had Mr. Clap been disposed to recant he could have hurt his Interest there; but on the contrary he laboured very much to quiet the People's Minds, ⟨p. 59⟩and to pacify them towards him. And when he was discoursed with about it he did not justify what he had done; and those Gentlemen assisted in his Ordination. And we can't see that their Moderation and good Temper in so easily passing over the Injury, can reflect any Blame upon us, for reciting a Fact so publickly transacted.
Whereas we speak of it, in our Defence, as a Thing that shows the Prejudice and Violence of the Gentlemen of that Party, that they intercepted, broke open, and published in the Gazette, a private Letter of a Person of Distinction to his Friend (meaning a Letter of the Rev. Rector of Yale College to Mr. W—ms of Long Meadow) you say that this needs want, as many of our Stories unhappily do, the needful Circumstances of Truth because none of you of the Council ever intercepted it, or broke it open; but if it be so, is that an Evidence that none of the Party did it.