Some of the latter part of your queries, for your own, and not my own sake, I shall not mention. I hope I can say with more sincerity than _Hazael_, “Is your servant a dog, that he should do” what you suggest! But I pray GOD to forgive you. He knows my heart. My one design is to bring poor souls to JESUS CHRIST. I desire to avoid extremes, so as not to be a bigot on the one hand, or confound order and decency on the other. And I could heartily wish the reverend presbytery, when they advised you to publish your queries, had also cautioned you against dipping your pen in so much gall. Surely your insinuations are contrary to that charity, which hopeth and believeth all things for the best. And I appeal to your own hearts, whether it was right, especially since you heard the constant tenor of my preaching in _America_ has been _calvinistical_, to censure me as a _Papist_ or _Arminian_, because a few unguarded expressions dropped from my pen, just as I came from the university of _Oxford_. Could Archbishop _Tillotson_, or the _Author_ of _The Whole Duty of Man_, say so? But I have done. The LORD be with you! I am a poor frail creature. And as such I beseech you to pray for
Your affectionate friend and servant,