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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
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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 ⟨p. 14⟩down in a Letter to the Printer; and if you don't believe it we desire you would enquire of the Printer.
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 joyned 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 look'd 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 meer Conjecture; when indeed your Guess is entirely wrong, for the Error was corrected by the same Person that made it, & 'tis mention'd as an Erratum in the End of the Book, in his own Words, as he sent them ⟨p. 14⟩down in a Letter to the Printer; and if you don't believe it we desire you would enquire of the Printer.
Certainly, Sir, when you was blaming us for going beyond our Evidence, it did not become you in the very same Instance you produce to prove it, to do the same Thing! We leave it with you to consider what Decency or Ingenuity there is in thus insisting on a Thing that comes corrected, repeating it in different Parts of your Book, only on a groundless Guess, that not we, but somebody else corrected it: Don't this again show that you endeavoured to lay on all the Load you possibly could, and that you was greedy of Instances of Untruth and Misrepresentation in us; otherwise why would not such a Multitude of other Instances, that you pretend you have found, that ben't mentioned as Errata, suffice you?