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…

With respect to what is related in the Narrative, Page 33, 34, of what the Rev. Mr. Allis said, you think you have Authority to contradict us before the World, as having given an Account that is not true, because Mr. Allis don't remember it; but if you have, 'tis because his negative Testimony alone, against the positive Testimonies of three that heard him, gives you Authority so to do.

In Page 48, you take Notice of our charging some of the Council with laying out themselves to be the Persons that must be the Judges in this Case before-hand; and ⟨p. 43⟩particularly the Reverend Moderator of the Council, which we say is evident by a Letter he sent to the Rev. Mr. Williams of Hatfield, to get us willing that he should come upon that Business, pretending to be unwilling to come without our Consent; but when he failed of obtaining that, he appeared resolved to come nevertheless. Herein you say we have doubly abused Mr. Cooper, and basely misrepresented his Letter; and that because, you say, the Design of that was not to ask the Consent of any of us to his coming up upon a Council, but to be present when Mr. Breck's Matters were fully heard before the Association. But not withstanding this bitter Charge, we will show that it was impossible for us to understand Mr. Cooper otherwise than we represented him, and that it is most clearly evident that we understood him right and represented him right, viz that the Design of his Letter was to ask our Consent to come up upon a Council, and as sent by his Church. Mr. Williams of Long-Meadow, upon his being shown that Letter by Mr. Williams of Hatfield, wrote a large Letter to Mr. Cooper (which Mr. Cooper, in his Answer to it says▪ seemed designed as an Answer to his, to the Rev. Mr. Williams of Hatfield, referring to Mr. Breck's Case) in which Mr. Williams endeavoured to represent to Mr. Cooper the melancholy Circumstances of the first Parish in Springfield, and the Confusion they were like to be brought into by the Measures Mr. Breck and his Adherents were taking, desiring his Help in so difficult an Affair, and manifested it as his Desire and Entreaty, that he would come up, not (in the Way which seemed to be proposed, viz.) as sent by his Church; but that he, with some others, would come and join with the Association in hearing Mr. Breck's Case, and as Peace-makers: As particularly in these Passages of his Letter, If the Charges against Mr Breck were fairly heard before our whole Association to whom they were sent; yea if you your self, and one more Gentleman of a cool Temper were added to them, and he were acquitted by them, I believe things would be like to be easy: I believe the Association would willingly hear any Reason Mr.