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Andover Apl 22 1790
Honoured Sir,

Mr Lakeman has just hinted that my opinion was desired, whether the settlement of a rigid Hopkintonian as a successor to Mr Rogers & his being concerned in the instruction of the Academy, would promote its usefulness? — I wish for more hours than I can now have minutes to write on the subject—but have no hesitation in saying, I should be exceeding slow to say or do any thing that might be construed to favor the affirmative of the question under present views.

Those people who run into extremes in doctrinal points & are exceedingly sanguine in their opinions, unless in cases where our Divine Teacher has removed all grounds of doubt (& in such cases there can be no extremes) do not appear to me calculated to do the most good:
our blessed Saviour, when he condescended to