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And what do you think, Rev. Sir, do these two Columns together make a decent and honourable Appearance ⟨p. 82⟩for a Man of GOD? And do you think that this Prayer was acceptable to GOD, as it came out of your Hands, tacked to such fleering Language, and made just as you took off your Pen from such Scoffs and Taunts, and sent them forth into the World to do their Work, the rendering ridiculous in the Eyes of Mankind your Brethren in the Ministry, that you pray for such holy Union with?

And what do you think, Rev. Sir, do these two Columns together make a decent and honourable Appearance ⟨p. 82⟩for a Man of GOD? And do you think that this Prayer was acceptable to GOD, as it came out of your Hands, tack'd to such fleering Language, and made just as you took off your Pen from such Scoffs and Taunts, and sent them forth into the World to do their Work, the rendring ridiculous in the Eyes of Mankind your Brethren in the Ministry, that you pray for such holy Union with?

Thus, Rev. Sir, we have endeavoured to vindicate ourselves from your Reproaches, and to lay Matter of Conviction before you, that you have exceedingly gone out of the Way, and how greatly you have abused us, both in what you have done and written: We can't tell what Entertainment it will meet with from you, or with what Frame you will receive it: We earnestly entreat that you would not suffer Resentment to prevail so far, but that there may at least be some serious Consideration. You say some serious considerate Christians have been a little surprised at our confident appealing to GOD as our Judge in this Case; which was not, as you injuriously represent, that we have been sinless and perfect in all that we have done in it; but with regard to the goodness of our Cause. and (as we in Words express it) with respect to our uprightness in this Affair: And let who will be surprised at it we confidently do it still: We pray GOD to judge between us and you. Tho' now possibly your Heat of Spirit, and Contempt of us, may forbid any Self-reflections; yet will it always be a Comfort to you, to think that you have obtained the Victory and got your Will in this Case, and have been the Instrument of rendering the religious State of this County, that before always flourished in an undisturbed and happy Union, our religious Affairs being, with Peace and Love, & general Consent, managed within ourselves? Will you always be glad that you have broke up that Order that has hither to been maintained amongst the Ministers of the County, for the Preservation of the Purity of Doctrine among us, and have laid us under an Incapacity for defending ourselves any more from encroaching Error, by opening a Door that Candidates for