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…

Now is one of these Columns a fair Representation of the other? Is there as much of an Appearance of the Thing that you brought it as a Proof of, (viz. That we endeavoured to keep the Case in the Hands of the Association, and bring the Church of Springfield under a Necessity to submit to our Judgment) in the one as in the other? Does the Spirit of Tyranny and Usurpation appear on the right Hand as it does on the left? You han't only suppressed whole Sentences that were against your Purpose, but some Parts of Sentences are left out that ⟨p. 67⟩you knew, if you had put in, would have defeated the Design of your Citation, and to conceal the Fraud, there is not so much as a Mark or Stroke with your Pen, to signify that any thing is wanting, and the following Words are joined with nothing but a Comma between to make your Readers believe tha• the Words are contained as in the Original. In such a Way as this do you lay the Foundation for your great Triumph in Page 82.: If you had put in these Words that you have left out, you could not say with so good a Grace as you do, Risum teneatis amici: Is this, Rev. Sir, doing to others as you would that they should do to you?

The next Proof of our Usurpation and Tyranny that you bring is, that we say in our Protestation, As to your selves interposing in the Affair, it seems to be a Breach of that Rule I Pet. 4. 15. and properly Allotrio Episcopein, which according to the Translation in our Bibles, is to be Busy-bodies in other Men's Matters. To which we say, That we don't think it any Evidence of Tyranny and Usurpation in us, to say that of you that is so manifestly and certainly true of you, as we have already shown this to be: Was it not the Part of Busy-bodies for you to lay your selves out to be the Persons that must be the Judges in this Case, before ever there was any Meeting of the Church to apply to any Body, and when others were possessed of it, by being submitted voluntarily to 'em, by all Parties concerned? Was it not the Part of Busy bodies, even by your own Principles and frequent Assertions, for you to thrust your selves into an Affair, in a Part of the Country an hundred Miles off from you, without ever being applied to at all by Springfield Church, under a Notion of your being fit Persons, and our being unfit? Was it not the Part of a Busy-body in one of you, to come fourscore Miles to be a Judge in this Affair, that was not only never chosen by the Church, but actually shut out by their Votes? And is it any Usurpation and Tyranny to tell such Busy-bodies that they are so?