,, [ 2 97 ] ' called, ADifcourfe of one Altar and one Priefl– hood, as againft us whom he callerhSchifrnaricks, and me in particular. It is much of the Complexion of the Firft Part, (His Schifmatical BookJ being a Chain of many linked.Propofitions, of which many are falfe,and many faHly ihaped and applied: But put off with a confident Affirmation that he · harh proved them true ; And his former Method is defended by as confident an Affirmation, -that all that is faid againll them invalidates not his proof. The {horteft way, I confefs, ofdefending himfelf' and anfwering others' and favech the . labour o'f much Writing anq Reading : And I think if the tedious ·Difcourfes of his twoVolurnes had been jufi to abqreviated, it had been a Kind.. nefs to his Readers. • § z, Whether he referve his Anfwer to my laft Book againft him to another Treatife, or mean eo overpafs it by faying it is contemptible, I know not, nor much defire to know. I find him here in his Preface doing that which may ferve his turn much better than an anfwer, viz.. r. Many angry Charges that I flander him ; 2. An attempt ~o prove it agreeable to his Method. 3·· Confi– dent'Affirmation that I write not accurately, nor anfwer his Proofs. And to thofe that read his Books and not mine, this is enough. § 1· His Proof of my Slander is mofily by way of quefiion; Where did 1 Jay this o1 that? Wher€, - x. Thofe .things that I fpake ofothers, he feigneth , me to fay of him: Joyning divers late Writers together, I mention what is [aid among them, fome one part, and fame another, and he rakes all · to himfelf. 2 . When I mention the clear Confe- ~g~!!C~~ 9f !li~ ~9etrine~ 3· ,And when jri my ... •. . 1 ~ecters . .
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