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Besides the Arguments of the *Usurpation* of our Association here, there is another Thing you mention Page 4; as an Argument of it you say, ' We find frequent mention in their Narrative, of their Association, its Meetings, ' breaking up, Committee, Votes, and Doings.' What can you mean by this ? Is it an Argument of *Usurpation* in us, that we call our selves an *Association* ? As if congregational Divines were Strangers to such a Term, when Dr. Cotton Mather, whom you cite as such an one, often uses the Term in his *Ratio Disciplinæ*, and approves the Thing as here practised, as has been already shown; and you your selves in *Boston* call your selves so, as you have given an Account, Page 87. And is it any Argument of *Usurpation* that we meet, and when we have met break up again ? Or that we have *Doings*, and don't do nothing when we meet ? Or that we signify our Minds by *Votes* ? Or that we have in some Cates chosen a *Committee* ? As if any voluntary Society may not choose a Committee to serve the rest and act for their Benefit !

In Page 82, 83, you say, ' That Mr. Lafel declares ' that when Mr. Clap came to him to get his Testimony, ' he would have had it run in such Terms as he could not ' in Conscience subscribe to; and when he told him how ' his Evidence must run, if he gave one at all, then his ' Evidence was no longer desirable.' We have enquir'd of Mr. Clap about this Matter, and he informs us that

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and yet have not done it; and to one of them particularly,

larly, he has given what we think a sufficient Satisfaction,

according to the Rules of the Gospel.' Wherein you refer to that Confession that Mr. B— sent to Mr. C—, Page 19, 20, of the Narrative, and particularly these Words of it ( as you explain your self, Page 94, 95.)

And so far as I have in any of these Things, or in my Discourse with you upon the Account of them, been faulty, or have failed in shewing that Respect which was due to you, or of that Meekness that becomes a Christian, I ask Christian Forgiveness. This shows how ignorant the Council was of the State of Facts relating to the Case that they judged upon; for the Defect in Mr. Breck's Morals, confiding in the Aspersion that he cast on those Gentlemen which you refer to, as is evident by Page 94, 95, was his representing them abroad to be Liars, which this Passage in his Letter to Mr. Clap has no Manner of Reference to, but to another Matter, viz. Mr. Breck's decent Talk to Mr. Clap's Face, as is evident by the Words themselves, — 'And so far as I have in my

Discourse with you, been faulty, or have fail'd of showing that Respect.' When Mr. Breck had been

down to Mr. Clap's, on the Affair in which Messrs. Williams and Eliot of Lebanon were concerned, which is mention'd a little before in that Letter of Mr. Breck's, he told Mr. Clap he would sue him at the common Law, and treated him with other indecent language: This