And concerning this Letter of yours, which is your pretended Answer to what I have published about that Matter, in Answer to your printed Letter to a Friend in Boston, wherein you asserted, that I had in two private Letters to you, in Effect, in very full and strong Terms owned the whole Matter to you that you had reported; I say, concerning this Letter of yours, I would observe, that you don't deny the Genuineness of the Copies of my Letters that I have published; nor do you produce any Attestations of what you have reported of me, which you say was in a Journey to Boston, in May 1743: Although' there were many Persons in Company with us in that Journey, at the Time you speak of, viz. the Rev. Mr. Breck of Springfield, and the Rev. Mr. Gay of Suffield and his Wife, and Mrs. Clap your own Lady, (who, I am ⟨p. 4⟩confident, was not wont to be at so great a Distance from you as to be out of hearing of Conversation) and your Son in Law that waited on you, and one with me on the same Horse, viz. my eldest Daughter, at the very Time when you say I told you this remarkable Story, who has lived at New-Haven all the Time of this Controversy between us, and most of the Time at Mr. Noyes's House, where you are very conversant, and she was often in your Way; and not only so, but she was very conversant at your own House, with your Daughters; and if you had seen Cause to have enquired of her, would have informed you, that she well remembered other Conversation that we had in that Journey, particularly the long Dispute we had about some Things you found Fault with in my Book, concerning the late Revival of Religion; but that she remembered not a Word said about Mr. Whitefield in that Journey. Nor did you in your Letter produce one Person that you have found any where, who ever heard me say any such Thing as you have reported, or any Thing like it at any Time; tho' I have publicly declared that I was willing all my Acquaintance, and those that I have been most conversant with, Ministers or others, in this Town and elsewhere, should be enquired of; and have openly challenged the whole World, besides you, to declare if they ever heard me report any such Thing. But all the World besides you are wholly silent: Tho' there are many Hundreds to whom it is every Way more likely I should reveal such a Secret, than to you, if I had it to reveal.
And concerning this Letter of yours, which is your pretended Answer to what I have published about that Matter, in Answer to your printed Letter to a Friend in Boston, wherein you asserted, that I had in two private Letters to you, in Effect, in very full and strong Terms own'd the whole Matter to you that you had reported; I say, concerning this Letter of yours, I would observe, that you don't deny the Genuineness of the Copies of my Letters that I have publish'd; nor do you produce any Attestations of what you have reported of me, which you say was in a Journey to Boston, in May 1743: Altho' there were many Persons in Company with us in that Journey, at the Time you speak of, viz. the Rev. Mr. Breck of Springfield, and the Rev. Mr. Gay of Suffield and his Wife, and Mrs. Clap your own Lady, (who, I am ⟨p. 4⟩confident, was not wont to be at so great a Distance from you as to be out of hearing of Conversation) and your Son in Law that waited on you, and one with me on the same Horse, viz. my eldest Daughter, at the very Time when you say I told you this remarkable Story, who has liv'd at New-Haven all the Time of this Controversy between us, and most of the Time at Mr. Noyes's House, where you are very conversant, and she was often in your Way; and not only so, but she was very conversant at your own House, with your Daughters; and if you had seen Cause to have enquired of her, would have informed you, that she well remember'd other Conversation that we had in that Journey, particularly the long Dispute we had about some Things you found Fault with in my Book, concerning the late Revival of Religion; but that she remember'd not a Word said about Mr. Whitefield in that Journey. Nor did you in your Letter produce one Person that you have found any where, who ever heard me say any such Thing as you have reported, or any Thing like it at any Time; tho' I have publickly declared that I was willing all my Acquaintance, and those that I have been most conversant with, Ministers or others, in this Town and elsewhere, should be enquired of; and have openly challeng'd the whole World, besides you, to declare if they ever heard me report any such Thing. But all the World besides you are wholly silent: Tho' there are many Hundreds to whom it is every Way more likely I should reveal such a Secret, than to you, if I had it to reveal.
