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…

And then you proceed, in Page 14, 15, 16 and 17. to raise an exceeding Outcry against us, as cruel, barbarous, unchristian and inhumane, and those whose tender Mercies are Cruelty, for publishing Mr. Clap's Testimony, in which he declared wherein he supposed Mr. Breck had been wanting to the Truth, in denying his stealing Books in College, because herein is contained a Mention of that Crime, that he was then guilty of when he was so young, &c. Tho' herein you represent us as a most vile Parcel of Men, and worthy of the utmost Detestation, yet we pray you with a little Seriousness to consider whether ⟨p. 9⟩or no your Treatment of us, with Respect to that Matter, be right in the Sight of GOD, and whether it han't been, on the contrary, exceeding unjust: What is it that we did, that we should be thus set forth as so exceeding black and vile? Our professed Design in writing our Book was to give the World a Narrative or History of our Proceedings in Mr. Breck's Affair; being, as we thought, obliged thereto by the Clamour that the Country was filled with against us, as having been intolerably injurious in that Affair: And in order to this, we gave an Account of and recite at large, that Information or Testimony that we received from the Reverend Mr. Clap that was the Occasion and main Foundation of those our Proceedings: And how was it possible for us to give the World a Narrative of our Proceedings, and not give an Account of that? For all our Proceedings were upon those Testimonies that were sent: How can any Judicature, or any that act publicly in a Cause, when they are complained of for Male-Administration or Injustice, vindicate themselves without giving an Account of those Informations or Testimonies on which they proceeded; and when they do so in their own necessary Vindication, is it just to cry out of them as the most monstrous and barbarous Wretches for so doing?

And then you proceed, in Page 14, 15, 16 and 17. to raise an exceeding Outcry against us, as cruel, barbarous, unchristian and inhumane, and those whose tender Mercies are Cruelty, for publishing Mr. Clap's Testimony, in which he declared wherein he supposed Mr. Breck had been wanting to the Truth, in denying his stealing Books in College, because herein is contain'd a Mention of that Crime, that he was then guilty of when he was so young, &c. Tho' herein you represent us as a most vile Parcel of Men, and worthy of the utmost Detestation, yet we pray you with a little Seriousness to consider whether ⟨p. 9⟩