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…

The Association, while the Affair was in their Hands, never had proceeded any further than only to insist on a particular Hearing of the Case, Mr. Breck and the Witnesses being Face to Face, in order to our concurring in his Settlement at Springfield: And this you know is what we were especially cried out against for, that we would not accept of his Vindication, or account of himself in an Examination without this. We judged that the Information we had had against his Principles and Morals rendered such a particular Enquiry necessary, and this we were concerned to show to the World for our Vindication, and how could we possibly do it without letting the World know what these Informations or Testimonies were? It was necessary that we should relate those Testimonies as they were, if we had published only a Part and concealed a Part, should we not have given a handle to those who ⟨p. 10⟩stand ready to reproach us? Could we have expected any other from your self, who are so ready to take all Advantages against us, than that you would cry out that our Testimonies, on which we proceeded, were such as we durst not let the World see? And it was especially necessary that that Part of the Information that respected his Veracity should be declared, for it was particularly on the Account of this that we think ourselves to be vindicated, for not accepting what he should say of himself without hearing him and the Witnesses Face to Face, which was the Thing we were especially condemned for: And we were brought to this Necessity of giving this Narrative very much by Mr. Breck's own Reproaches and Revilings of us, of which his comparing us to Haman in the Pulpit, which you call a pretty Tale, is a Specimen: This we think would have justified us in publishing that Testimony, tho' this Matter, which one Thing testified has a Reference to, had been of that Nature as would have greatly wronged his Reputation; but you yourself seem to speak as tho' it had very little of that Tendency.—That we must by no Means be allowed to speak of Mr.

The Association, while the Affair was in their Hands, never had proceeded any further than only to insist on a particular Hearing of the Case, Mr. Breck and the Witnesses being Face to Face, in order to our concurring in his Settlement at Springfield: And this you know is what we were especially cryed out against for, that we would not accept of his Vindication, or account of himself in an Examination without this. We judged that the Information we had had against his Principles and Morals rendred such a particular Enquiry necessary, and this we were concern'd to show to the World for our Vindication, and how could we possibly do it without letting the World know what these Informations or Testimonies were? It was necessary that we shou'd relate those Testimonies as they were, if we had publish'd only a Part and conceal'd a Part, should we not have given a handle to those who