A letter from the Reverend Mr. Whitefield, to some church members of the Presbyterian persuasion, in answer to certain scruples and queries...

"LAST Night and this Morning I read your Queries and Scruples. Whether they were compiled by Church Members or Ministers of the Presbyterian Persuasion, I shall not take upon me to determine. I think I may say, with David on another Occasion, Joab's Hand is in this If your Ministers were really the Authors, and you only their Representatives, they have not acted simply. They had better have spoken out. I should as readily have answered them as you. Solomon says, He that hateth Reproof, is Brutish: And if I know any thing of my own Heart, I should think myself obliged to any one that convinces me of any Error, either in Principle or Practice. I therefore assure you, that I do not find the least Resentment stirring in my Soul against those (whoever they be) that proposed the Queries, or against the Rev. Presbytery that advised you to send them to me in a Publick Manner: No, I rejoice in it; because it gives me an Opportunity of doing what my Friends know I have for some time proposed, viz. To correct some Passages in my printed Sermons. I think it no Dishonour to retract some Expressions that have formerly dropped from my Pen, before God was pleased to give me a more clear Knowledge of the Doctrines of Grace. St.