Note 63 — PART II.

The Supposition was correct. There was an Edition of the Work referred to, printed in Philadelphia in 1692, in a small Quarto of 16 Pages. Upon this Letter and the Work of Mr. Willard Dr. Mather remarks, evidently under great Excitement and Indignation as respects the Former: "I remember that when this miserable Man sent unto an eminent Minister in the Town, a Libellous Letter, reflecting both on a Judicious Discourse written by him, and on the Holy Proposals made by the Præsident and Fellows of Harvard-College, about recording of Remarkable Providences, and when he demanded and expected an Answer to his Follies, that Reverend Person only said Go tell him That the Answer to him and his Letter is in the Twenty Sixth of the Proverbs, and the Fourth."

Mr. Willard's Silence was undoubtedly owing to a very different Cause than that given by Dr. Mather. It is fairly inferable that Mr. Willard was too good a Logician not to see that Mr. Calef's Argument did not admit of Refutation, and that his own Reputation would be best conserved by Silence.