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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.

Mr. Cooper, in his Letter to Mr. Hopkins, which he wrote to him after our Book had been published so long that we may well conclude he had seen it, expresses Charity for us all with Respect to our Veracity: His Words are these, I thank GOD, my Charity is not so shocked, with respect to Brother Hopkins, or any of the Ministers of Hampshire, as to suspect them, after all the Stories I have heard, to be guilty of wilful Departure from Truth and Fact. Mr. Cooper knows whether he had any Hand in writing this Book; if he had, and believed in his Heart, as he says to Mr. Hopkins, certainly it was very injurious in him, so abundantly to represent to the World, as if we so abounded in Lying, as that there was no Trust to be put in our Words, so publicly to wound our Reputation, contrary to what he thought in his own Heart, or at the same Time, that he believed that we were Men of Truth, so as not so much as to suspect that we were otherwise, and to thank GOD that he had so much Charity for us.

Mr. Cooper, in his Letter to Mr. Hopkins, which he wrote to him after our Book had been published so long that we may well conclude he had seen it, expresses Charity for us all with Respect to our Varacity: His Words are these, I thank GOD, my Charity is not so shock'd, with respect to Brother Hopkins, or any of the Ministers of Hampshire, as to suspect them, after all the Stories I have heard, to be guilty of wilful Departure from Truth and Fact. Mr. Cooper knows whether he had any Hand in writing this Book; if he had, and believed in his Heart, as he says to Mr. Hopkins, certainly it was very injurious in him, so abundantly to represent to the World, as if we so abounded in Lying, as that there was no Trust to be put in our Words, so publickly to wound our Reputation, contrary to what he thought in his own Heart, or at the same Time, that he believed that we were Men of Truth, so as not so much as to suspect that we were otherwise, and to thank GOD that he had so much Charity for us.