It is not in the power of the Crown itself to inhibit me from the performance of my ordinary duties in this parish by any such missive as that sent to me by your lordship.

If your lordship think it right to stop my mouth as a clergyman in your diocese, you must proceed to do so in an ecclesiastical court in accordance with the laws, and will succeed in your object, or fail, in accordance with the evidences as to ministerial fitness or unfitness, which may be produced respecting me before the proper tribunal.
I will allow that much attention is due from a clergyman to pastoral advice given to him by his bishop.

On that head I must first express to your lordship my full understanding that your letter has not been intended to convey advice, but an order;--an inhibition, as your messenger, the Reverend Mr.Thumble, has expressed it.
There might be a case certainly in which I should submit myself to counsel, though I should resist command.

No counsel, however, has been given,--except indeed that I should receive your messenger in a proper spirit, which I hope I have done.

No other advice has been given me, and therefore there is now no such case as that I have imagined.