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…

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.

The first Instance you mention of a Misrepresentation, wherein you say, our Haste and Warmth probably carried us beyond our Evidence, is in saying that the Ministers that came from Boston had joined in giving Mr. Breck a Certificate of his Orthodoxy, when but one of them had signed it: And tho' you find this Mistake corrected in the End of the Book, yet you say it was done by a Gentleman in Boston, that looked over that Half Sheet: You repeat this Matter again, Page 36, you say if you mistake not it was so; but why, Rev. Sir, will you thus treat your Brethren in the Ministry, to publish such a Thing to disparage us, and render us vile in the Sight of the World on a mere Conjecture; when indeed your Guess is entirely wrong, for the Error was corrected by the same Person that made it, & 'tis mentioned as an Erratum in the End of the Book, in his own Words, as he sent them