Misrepresentations corrected, and truth vindicated. In a reply to the Rev. Mr. Solomon Williams's…

THO' I am not now your Pastor, yet having so long stood in that Relation to you, I look on my self obliged, notwithstanding all that has of late passed between us, still to maintain a special Concern for your spiritual Welfare. And as your present Circumstances appear to me very evidently attended with some peculiar Dangers, threatening the great Wounding of the Interest of vital Religion among you; which probably most of you are not well aware of: I look on my self called to point forth your Danger to you, and give you Warning. What I now especially have Respect to, is the Danger I apprehend you are in, from the Contents of that Book of Mr. W. of Lebanon, to which the foregoing Performance is a Reply; which I perceive has been written and published very much by your Procurement & at your Expense; and so (it may naturally be supposed and expected) is dispersed in your Families, and will be valued, and much made use of by you as a Book of great Importance. What I have Respect to, is not so much the Danger you are in of being established by that Book in your former Principles, concerning the Admission of Members (tho' I think these Principles are indeed very opposite to the Interest of true Piety in Churches;) But what I now mean is the Danger there is, that while you are making much of that Book as a Means to maintain Mr. Stoddard's Doctrine concerning the Terms of Communion, You, and especially ⟨p. 168⟩your Children, will by the Contents of it be led quite off from other religious Principles and Doctrines, which Mr. S. brought you up in, and always esteemed as of vastly greater Importance, than his particular Tenet about the Lord's Supper; and be naturally led into Notions and Principles, which He ever esteemed as of fatal Tendency to the Souls of Men.

THO' I am not now your Pastor, yet having so long stood in that Relation to you, I look on my self obliged, notwithstanding all that has of late pass'd between us, still to maintain a special Concern for your spiritual Welfare. And as your present Circumstances appear to me very evidently attended with some peculiar Dangers, threatning the great Wounding of the Interest of vital Religion among you; which probably most of you are not well aware of: I look on my self called to point forth your Danger to you, and give you Warning. What I now especially have Respect to, is the Danger I apprehend you are in, from the Contents of that Book of Mr. W. of Lebanon, to which the foregoing Performance is a Reply; which I perceive has been written and publish'd very much by your Procurement & at your Expence; and so (it may naturally be supposed and expected) is dispers'd in your Families, and will be valued, and much made use of by you as a Book of great Importance. What I have Respect to, is not so much the Danger you are in of being established by that Book in your former Principles, concerning the Admission of Members (tho' I think these Principles are indeed very opposite to the Interest of true Piety in Churches;) But what I now mean is the Danger there is, that while you are making much of that Book as a Means to maintain Mr. Stoddard's Doctrine concerning the Terms of Communion, You, and especially