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…

which Observation you very often repeat, tho' we think there is no Repetition that you mention but what may be vindicated from being impertinent, and that we also could show that there is no less of Repetition in your Book than in our's, were it worth the while to enter upon so trifling and childish a Controversy.

which Observation you very often repeat, tho' we think there is no Repetition that you mention but what may be vindicated from being impertinent, and that we also could shew that there is no less of Repetition in your Book than in our's, were it worth the while to enter upon so trifling and childish a Controversy.

Supposing it be so indeed, that we can't write so correctly and methodically as you can, or supposing you could make it manifest, that we did not know how to write well enough' to appear in Print, yet how does that alter the State of the Argument, with Regard to the Merits of the Cause? And what other End could you have in insisting on it, than to fix that Mark of Dishonour and Disgrace upon us, that we have written in a weak and ridiculous manner?

Supposing it be so indeed, that we can't write so correctly and methodically as you can, or supposing you could make it manifest, that we did not know how to write well eno' to appear in Print, yet how does that alter the State of the Argument, with Regard to the Merits of the Cause? And what other End could you have in insisting on it, than to fix that Mark of Dishonour and Disgrace upon us, that we have written in a weak and ridiculous manner?

You sarcastically say, Page 8, That our Repetitions are not vain, but serve mighty well to answer the very christian Design of our Performance: We would pray you to consider what very christian Design you could have in these Things. Is there any thing in the Manner of our saying these Things, that you say don't enter into the Merits of the Cause, that shows that the whole Design of them must be to fix a Mark of Dishonour and Disgrace, and are from an evil and bitter Spirit, &c? And pray Sir, let your own Conscience speak, whether we said any of those Things, in such a contemptuous Manner, and in such bitter and opprobrious Language, as you have said those Things of us. And certainly, seeing you saw such a hatefulness and Vileness in our doing as you say we did, and manifest such an Abomination of it when you speak of it, you ought to have been so much further from it yourself.