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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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In Page 94, you misrepresent what he said before the Association, about his charging Mr Clap with lying, viz. That he said he was very sorry he expressed himself in so hasty and indecent a Manner; but he must insist upon it that in what Mr Clap said of him he was wronged. You was not there as we were: What he indeed said there was this, viz. That he might have used other Terms, but the Thing that he asserted was true.
In Page 94, you misrepresent what he said before the Association, about his charging Mr Clap with lying, viz. That he said he was very sorry he express'd himself in so hasty and indecent a Manner; but he must insist upon it that in what Mr Clap said of him he was wronged. You was not there as we were: What he indeed said there was this, viz. That he might have used other Terms, but the Thing that he asserted was true.
In the Conclusion of your Book, you put up a very solemn Prayer to GOD, wherein you make use of the Words of Christ just before his Crucifixion, that we may be all united in Love and Peace: With respect to which we would pray you to consider how that Prayer suits with your Treatment of your Brethren in the Ministry, and others, and particularly in that Book. Certainly it is not very decent for a Man while he is trampling on his Neighbour, with fleering Taunts and Derision, at the same Time to put up a Prayer to GOD, in the most solemn Expressions, that he and that Man may be united in Love and christian Charity. We would pray you to take a little Notice of the following Specimen of your Treatment of us, and your Prayer for Union with us, together;
In the Conclusion of your Book, you put up a very solemn Prayer to GOD, wherein you make use of the Words of Christ just before his Crucifixion, that we may be all united in Love and Peace: With respect to which we would pray you to consider how that Prayer suits with your Treatment of your Brethren in the Ministry, and others, and particularly in that Book. Certainly it is not very decent for a Man while he is trampling on his Neighbour, with flearing Taunts and Derision, at the same Time to put up a Prayer to GOD, in the most solemn Expressions, that he and that Man may be united in Love and christian Charity. We would pray you to take a little Notice of the following Specimen of your Treatment of us, and your Prayer for Union with us, together;