Since then the Artifice of tlie Answerers hath been to turn off the attention of his Excellency and his Council from the true state of the Question, to run upon considerations foreign and remote from the Subject, and into Cavils on matters which have not given occasion to our last Difference ; I tliink therefore that it is proper and necessary to bring them back to an enquiry into tlie matter of Fact itself, which we are about, and which is expressed in the Petition of the heads of Families of our Church, and in the two Papers thereto annexed. This Petition was presented on account of a certain Instrument passed and signed against me, on the 20th of last September^ and on account of the unhappy Consequences, whicli it hath since had with Relation to our Church. Now as this Instrument, according to the Copy wliich it hath been thought fit to give me of it, containeth the Reasons and Motives wliich have engaged the present Consistory to undertake to turn me out of my office, and to take all tlie Steps which those Gentlemen have taken in pursuance thereof j it would have been right to have produced this Instrument, such as it is, genuin or not, before his Excellency and the honourable Council, that they might the better judge of the bottom of the Dispute, and not sutler themselves to be amused by the subtle Evasions of the Answerers, wlio will often attempt to impose upon them, if they are not upon their guard, as it may be expected from persons of their Wisdom and Justice.