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…

Thus, Sir, instead of our running our own Writings first into Print, those of your Party stole 'em, and exposed 'em, and ridiculed 'em in the public Prints. And then you write again▪ crying down both the Ministers ⟨p. 4⟩and Magistrates of the County, before ever we published any thing at all: And this after you had, in a great Measure filled the Country with Reproaches of us, and raised a general Cry against us, as a set of ambitious, arbitrary, and unjust Usurpers, in the principal Part of the Country, where we, by ••ason of our Distance, have no other Way to speak for ourselves but by the Press: And then after all cry out of us for running the Matter into the public Prints.

Thus, Sir, instead of our running our own Writings first into Print, those of your Party stole 'em, and expos'd 'em, and ridicul'd 'em in the publick Prints. And then you write again▪ crying down both the Ministers ⟨p. 4⟩and Magistrates of the County, before ever we publish'd any thing at all: And this after you had, in a great Measure filled the Country with Reproaches of us, and raised a general Cry against us, as a set of ambitious, arbitrary, and unjust Usurpers, in the principal Part of the Country, where we, by ••ason of our Distance, have no other Way to speak for ourselves but by the Press: And then after all cry out of us for running the Matter into the publick Prints.

As to the Things insisted on, Page 3, 4, and 5. we shall have Occasion to speak afterwards. In Page 5,&6, after you had for two or three Pages been ridiculing our Association, and its Acts and Pretensions, you say, And when they (i. e. Associations) come ex-officio, to administer Oaths, it seems also to intrench upon the Authority of the civil Magistrate; and then in the Margin you say to the World, The Form of an Oath, or Declaration taken by a particular Minister, by Order of an Association, may be seen in the Narrative Page 49, the first, we suppose, of the Kind that has been given to the Public, and therefore worthy of special Notice. The Thing referred to in the Narrative,. is, that a particular Minister in Connecticut took the Evidence of certain Persons, in order to be sent to Springfield, at the Time of the sitting of the Council there; and they in giving their Evidence declared before GOD the Searcher of all Hearts, that their Evidence was the Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but, the Truth.