Autograph letter signed : London, to [John Asty(?)], 1728 Aug. 8.

Thanking him for a copy of the funeral sermon he delivered; asking him why he charges him "with taking offense at an Old Friend without any just cause given on your part, you are sure;" asking, at length and in detail, the reasons why "in concert with other unfriendly persons had publish'd his papers; & I found my self charged in print w'th thing very grievous & offensive to many ministers & private Christians, together with some other expressions in your book w'ch did not discover such a degree of friendship as I might justly have expected from Mr. Asty;" adding "I think I am not of that quarrelsome temper : I hope the God of Nature & Grace hath form'd me of another mould : but neither Good Nature nor Christianity obliges me to maintain the same intimacy of friendship with one who has broken the rules of it & who continues therein without any sense of Misconduct or acknowledgements of any kind;" concluding that if he were to acknowledge his misconduct he would be happy to resume the friendship; adding in a postscript that he has "put four guineas into Mrs. Hartopps hand for the meeting house at Armingland."