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The Answer.
SIR,
I Thank you for the great paines you have been pleased to take in perusing my Papers, and for your rational amendments and advertisements upon them: They are the same in general which some other able friends have given mee; and they are like the Corrections which I my self have several times advised unto my abused and provoked friends, when passionately writing or petitioning for their vindication and relief. I am sorry that I cannot take all your wholsom councel, for altering what I have written: for which stubbornness of mine, I give you the following reasons, relating to the several points which they or you except against; viz.
As to sharpness in general.
Whatsoever strangers may think of my sharpness, others who know my Services and Sufferings, and the evenness and tenderness I have used towards all those, commonly called Sectaries, (and that not for other ends then conscience and judg-
