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In Page 9, after mentioning some Things in the Narrative that you say are low and trifling, you say. Another pretty Tale we are entertained with, in Page 63, there they tell us, that Mr. Breck, preaching from those Words, Many are the Afflictions of the Righteous, compared himself to David, Mordecai, and other good Men, and those who opposed him to Haman, &c.. Mayn't your Reader have just Ground to suspect that this is but a Specimen of your Way of judging and estimating Things relating to Mr. B—k, in calling it a pretty Tale, and putting of it into the Catalogue of Things that you call low and trifling, when it is related, That he that was so young, and not yet ordained, should in the Pulpit, not only compare himself to David and Mordecai, and the neighbouring Ministers, that had been long settled and accepted in that Work, and are old enough' to be his Fathers, to Haman? And may we not take it as a Specimen of your Impartiality? We would pray you, Sir, to consider what you would think or say of any of us that are not so much younger than you, if we should in our Pulpits, compare ourselves to Mordecai and you to Haman his cruel Persecutor; would it be a pretty Tale then? Would it not be horrid Profaneness, and many other Things as bad? And we would pray you also to consider how vehemently you have inveighed against us in your Book for saying Things of you that are far less than this. And tho' it be a low and trifling Thing, not worthy to be mentioned for Mr. Breck to say this of his Fathers in the Pulpit, yet if they do but relate a Testimony publicly given by others, wherein there is something against Mr. Breck, How far is this from being a trifling Matter? Instead of which they are ranked by you among ⟨p. 6⟩those whose tender Mercies are Cruelty; and you cry out, What can be more cruel, barbarous, more contrary to Humanity as well as Christianity? What a Spirit does this discover? You say, in Page 10, This is not true, And he did not make such a Declaration as we speak of, and call GOD to witness that he was innocent of the Thing; laid to his Charge; but tho' you positively deny it, yet Col. Dwight of Brookfield, and several others that were present and heard him, have taken their Oath to […] before the Justices of the County.

In Page 9, after mentioning some Things in the Narrative that you say are low and trifling, you say. Another pretty Tale we are entertained with, in Page 63, there they tell us, that Mr. Breck, preaching from those Words, Many are the Afflictions of the Righteous, compared himself to David, Mordicai, and other good Men, and those who oppos'd him to Haman, &c.. Mayn't your Reader have just Ground to suspect that this is but a Specimen of your Way of judging and estimating Things relating to Mr. B—k, in calling it a pretty Tale, and putting of it into the Catalogue of Things that you call low and trifling, when it is related, That he that was so young, and not yet ordained, should in the Pulpit, not only compare himself to David and Mordicai, and the neighbouring Ministers, that had been long settled and accepted in that Work, and are old eno' to be his Fathers, to Haman? And may we not take it as a Specimen of your Impartiality? We would pray you, Sir, to consider what you would think or say of any of us that are not so much younger than you, if we should in our Pulpits, compare ourselves to Mordicai and you to Haman his cruel Persecutor; would it be a pretty Tale then? Would it not be horrid Prophaness, and many other Things as bad? And we would pray you also to consider how vehemently you have inveighed against us in your Book for saying Things of you that are far less than this. And tho' it be a low and trifling Thing, not worthy to be mentioned for Mr. Breck to say this of his Fathers in the Pulpit, yet if they do but relate a Testimony publickly given by others, wherein there is something against Mr. Breck, How far is this from being a trifling Matter? Instead of which they are ranked by you among