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…

In Page 2, you boldly charge us with running this Controversy into the public Prints. Certainly you ought not thus to have declared this to the World before you knew it; and yet afterwards, before you get to the Bottom of the Page, you implicitly confess, that you don't know it; for you speak of the two Letters in the Boston Journal, as published by us, or somebody that undertook our Vindication: If it was only somebody that undertook our Vindication, how does it thence follow, as you say, that we not being content that the Matter should remain the Subject of Conversation only, run it into the public Prints: And yet afterwards again, in the Margin, you charge the publishing these Letters at such a Time, on us, as an Instance of our unfair Way of managing. Indeed, we none of us had any hand in publishing either of those Letters, and knew not that any such Letters were published, or like to be published, or were in Being, 'till we saw them in the public Prints: And if they had been published by us, it would have been very injuriously said, that it was before any thing was published on the other side: Whereas you very well know, the Complaint of Springfield Church to the General Assembly, was published in the Boston Gazette, and the Letters referred to in your Answer, we suppose, were occasioned by that Publication, and a stolen Letter that was written on this Affair, was before this exposed in the public Prints, with ludicrous Reflections, to render the Author, and the Cause he appeared in, ridiculous in the Eyes of the World.

In Page 2, you boldly charge us with running this Controversy into the publick Prints. Certainly you ought not thus to have declared this to the World before you knew it; and yet afterwards, before you get to the Bottom of the Page, you implicitly confess, that you don't know it; for you speak of the two Letters in the Boston Journal, as published by us, or somebody that undertook our Vindication: If it was only somebody that undertook our Vindication, how does it thence follow, as you say, that we not being content that the Matter should remain the Subject of Conversation only, run it into the publick Prints: And yet afterwards again, in the Margin, you charge the publishing these Letters at such a Time, on us, as an Instance of our unfair Way of managing. Indeed, we none of us had any hand in publishing either of those Letters, and knew not that any such Letters were published, or like to be published, or were in Being, 'till we saw them in the publick Prints: And if they had been published by us, it would have been very injuriously said, that it was before any thing was published on the other side: Whereas you very well know, the Complaint of Springfield Church to the General Assembly, was published in the Boston Gazette, and the Letters refer'd to in your Answer, we suppose, were occasioned by that Publication, and a stolen Letter that was written on this Affair, was before this exposed in the publick Prints, with ludicrous Reflections, to render the Author, and the Cause he appeared in, ridiculous in the Eyes of the World.