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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…
A letter to the author of the pamphlet called An answer [sic] to the Hampshire narrative. : [Three lines from Proverbs]A letter to the author of the pamphlet called An answeer [sic] to the Hampshire narrative. : [Three lines from Proverbs]
Boston: : s.n., Printed in the year 1737
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Again, 'Tis there represented as tho' the Author of that Letter had written to Mr. Williams, manifesting his Dislike of letting the Contents of that Letter be known; which is quite wrong. The Words of the Doctor's Letter are these, Mr. Cooper tells me of my Letter's being put into the Hands of a mean Person, I think a Shoe maker, who carried it from House to House. The Reverend Doctor never blamed Mr. Williams for letting the Contents of the Letter be known, nor did Mr. Williams go about to excuse himself for so doing; but to let the Doctor know that the Report was not true which the Rev. Mr. Cooper had told him, of his doing so ungentlemanly a Thing, as to put a Letter of his, that was committed to his Care, into the Hands of a Shoe-maker, to be carried from House to House.
Again, 'Tis there represented as tho' the Author of that Letter had written to Mr. Williams, manifesting his Dislike of letting the Contents of that Letter be known; which is quite wrong. The Words of the Doctor's Letter are these, Mr. Cooper tells me of my Letter's being put into the Hands of a mean Person, I think a Shoe maker, who carried it from House to House. The Reverend Doctor never blam'd Mr. Williams for letting the Contents of the Letter be known, nor did Mr. Williams go about to excuse himself for so doing; but to let the Doctor know that the Report was not true which the Rev. Mr. Cooper had told him, of his doing so ungentlemanly a Thing, as to put a Letter of his, that was committed to his Care, into the Hands of a Shoe-maker, to be carried from House to House.
At the Bottom of the same Page, you tell the World, That our Book abounds with Misrepresentations and Untruths; and elsewhere are often charging us with vile ⟨p. 13⟩and wilful Misrepresentations; yea, you represent us as Persons so guilty in this Matter, that our Word is of no Significancy, or is not to be taken; your Words are, Page 58, And how should such Men be credited in their Representations of other Matters.