Anonymous

“ Strange it is that a Man that has the universal Character of an honest, godly minded Man all his Days, and whose Life was never sullied with any foul Blot, should have this Treatment from them meerly on Account of his Opinion, for I could never hear any, even of your bitterest Enemies, lay any Immorality to your Charge: And for your Book, let it be what it will, I’m sure, ‘tis more than Skot, or his merry Andrew Miller can answer, to any honest, unprejudiced Man’s Satisfaction ”

“ I know the Man; he was a Preacher to the Baptists in the West Part of England; but being cast out by them for Fornication, &c. he crept up into our Country, got into the Favour of that People here, and prated for Fire among them as long as he could conceal his Wickedness; for he Married one Woman here, had Bastards by others, as I have been inform’d, and I am sure he forsook his Wife to cohabit constantly with One of his Whores, that Father’d One Bastard on him in his Wife’s Life Time ”

“ The Horror that must needs seize that Man’s Conscience, when he considers what an unrighteous Slander he has published of his Innocent Neighbour. But I am really afraid the Man is got into the old Popish Tenet, viz. ”