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A Letter From a Clergyman in Town - 7

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If I have preached with Earnestness, and even dyed away in the Cause of my Saviour, they have said I was in Drink; but I defy all as malicious Treatment. I have been Scandalzed, by telling Stories of me that I was a Liar.---I have been in Perils among false Brethren, and even the Church of England Ministers are so, the Rectors and Ministers have trampled on me as a Worm, and as it will turn, so have I, and then they have blemished my Reputation, by saying I was a boisterous and obstropulous Man; but Woe unto these Propogators of Falsehoods; they are founding Brasses and tinking Cymbals.

I am not Heterodoxish in my Divinity, but Orthodoxish, and thank the Father of Lights, i have more to attend me in my own Church, out of which my Enemies cannot turn me, than any Minister of them all, The Articles and Constitutions are such, that the Gates of Hell cannot prevail against them, to get me out; and now I hang out the Flag of Defiance to my Enemies, and bid them sleep as Tantalus did; when they cannot sleep, because of their Wickedness; these People enjoy Torments on Earth, a very Hell in thier Consciences, and all their Dislike is to me for speaking freely my Mind out of the Pulpit, and in it to them. But Sinners will be rewarded in good Time, as 
 

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  1. A Letter From a Clergyman in Town - 7