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PEace is so desirable, that we have suffered our selves to be long misrepresented in hopes that time at least would so abate the Prejudi∣ces of our Dissenting Brethren (as the Re∣port calls them) as not to necessitate us to a Publick Vin∣dication of our selves. But to our grief we find that the more we submitted, the more some were incoura∣ged to serve their own purposes, by exposing us and our Ministry. Yet we continued Passive until a Print∣ed Paper, entituled, A Report of our Differences: writ∣ten by some of them as if in the name, if not with the consent, or countenance of the rest, compels us at last, to state Matters of Fact, as they stand, with respect to Doctrinals, between us the United Ministers in and a∣bout London, and such as have Deserted our Union: which we can freely submit to the Judgment of the unbiass'd Reader, altho we forbear to mention several things, which would irritate more than those we are forced to Recite for our Defence against the Paper we are now taking into Consideration.
The Title it bears is, A Report of the present State of the Differences in Doctrinals, &c. But upon Perusal, we find it neither an impartial, clear, nor true Report of those Differences; nor can the design it is to serve be concealed, especially when it is so industriously sent throughout the Kingdom, to impose on such as are unacquainted with our Case. Before we examine the particulars of this Report, it's needful to give an Ac∣count of the rise, and progress of our differences, wherein it will appear whether we did any thing to break the Union, or ommitted any thing within our power to induce those Brethren to re-unite, who