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In Page 82, 83, you say, That Mr. Lasel declares that when Mr. Clap came to him to get his Testimony, he would have had it run in such Terms as he could not in Conscience subscribe to; and when he told him how his Evidence must run, if he gave one at all, then his Evidence was no longer desired. We have enquired of Mr. Clap about this Matter, and he informs us that he never went to Mr. Lasel to get him to give in any Evidence at all, and that the only Paper he desired him to subscribe, was a Paper containing his Discourse with Mr. Manning and others, when the said Lasel was present, of which there is some Account in our Narrative Page 60, 65.

In Page 82, 83, you say, That Mr. Lasel declares that when Mr. Clap came to him to get his Testimony, he would have had it run in such Terms as he could not in Conscience subscribe to; and when he told him how his Evidence must run, if he gave one at all, then his Evidence was no longer desir'd. We have enquir'd of Mr. Clap about this Matter, and he informs us that he never went to Mr. Lasel to get him to give in any Evidence at all, and that the only Paper he desired him to subscribe, was a Paper containing his Discourse with Mr. Manning and others, when the said Lasel was present, of which there is some Account in our Narrative Page 60, 65.

You nextly proceed to declare the Grounds on which you proceeded to the Ordination of Mr. B—; and to that End, in Page 85, 86, you publish the Result of your Council at its first setting, in which you say of Mr. B—k,—Nor are we sensible of any Thing respecting his Morals, which disqualifies him for the Gospel Ministry; inasmuch as those Persons who have thought themselves aspersed by him, have had an Opportunity to bring in their Complaints to this Council ⟨p. 72⟩and yet have not done it; and to one of them particularly, he has given what we think a sufficient Satisfaction, according to the Rules of the Gospel Wherein you refer to that Confession that Mr. B—sent to Mr. C—, Page 19, 20, of the Narrative, and particularly these Words of it (as you explain your self, Page 94, 95.) And so far as I have in any of these Things, or in my Discourse with you upon the Account of them, been faulty, or have failed in showing that Respect which was due to you, or of that Meekness that becomes a Christian, I ask christian Forgiveness. This shows how ignorant the Council was of the State of Facts relating to the Case that they judged upon, for the Defect in Mr. Breck's Morals, consisting in the Aspersion that he cost on those Gentlemen which you refer to, as is evident by Page 94, 95, was his representing them abroad to be Liars, which this Passage in his Letter to Mr. Clap has no Manner of Reference to, but to another Matter, viz. Mr. Breck's indecent Talk to Mr Clap's Face, as is evident by the Words themselves,—And so far as I have in my Discourse with you, been faulty, or have failed of showing that Respect. When Mr. Breck had been down to Mr. Clap's on the Affair in which Messi. Williams and Eliot of Lebanon were concerned, which is mentioned a little before in that Letter of Mr. Breck's, he told Mr. Clap he would sue him at the common Law, and treated him with other indecent Language: This Mr. Williams of Hatfield, who drew that Confession for Mr. Breck, had been informed of by Mr. Williams of Lebanon, in a Letter, and therefore he inserted those Words in that Confession; but Mr. Williams of Hatfield never heard of Mr. Breck's charging Mr. Clap with Lying, till afterwards, as appears by Mr. Williams's own Words, in the following Page of the Narrative;