Note 62 — PART II.
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Dr. Mather's Animadversions on these "Ten Articles" should be read in Connection: "When he sent about unto all the Ministers a Libellous Letter against myself, falsely charging me with writing in a Manuscript of mine Ten Articles (which are of his own drawing up) whereof the chief are of his own pure Invention, there was not one of all those reverend Persons, who thought him worthy of an Answer. And now his Book is come abroad, I cannot hear (and many observe the Like) of so much as one vertuous and sensible Man, but let their Opinions about the Salem Troubles be what they will, they detest it, as, a Vile Book; as being an intire Libel upon the whole Government and Ministry in the Land; yea, they think it beneath a Minister of the Gospel to bestow the Pains of an Answer upon it. The Book serves but as an Engine to discover (by their approbation of it) a few Persons in the Land that will distinguish themselves by an exalted Malignity." Some Few Remarks on a Scandalous Book, 34-5.