The Preface to theReaders'. fides what in this Book I have anfwered already , I fhall here briefly touch upon , and give force part of my an- fvver in the words of others that can better bear offthe becaufe mine own are fo lyable to mifconftrudi- ons and have .by thefe disfatisfied Brethren been fo much wrefted as they have oft been. 1. Some have given out that I am addided to fingu- larity, and affect to hear an Egoprimes inveni.Their proof for ought that ever I could learn, is only from my Wri- tings, becaufe I faynot in all things as they do. To there Brethren I fay 1. I flaall promife by the grace of God to watch my heart with what diligence I can, againft theafledation of fingularity , and I defire their prayers and admonitions for my furtherance. 2 And I wouldhave them alfo fearch, left they prove guilty ofa flander, while they enter into mens hearts, and venture to proclaimwhat they do not know. Is this the encou- ragement they give to Truths that no man can tell them one wordmore then they have con fidered ( though he profefs himfelf never fo much below them in other things) but it mull be rejeded as Novelty, and himCelf charged with fingularity ? Are they Pure that I may not have better.ends then they imagine 3. And I en- gage the fmall reputationof my reading, to make good,, that the Opinions which I oppose are molt, if not every one of them, notorious Novelties, contrary to the Do- &rine of the Ancient Chriftians for many hundred vears, after Chrift. I profefs to efteem it an unchriftian thing to hunt after fame and vain-glory , much more to pur- chafe it by the fale of Truth ; and fuch courfes can bring nothingbut Infamy in the ends The great diffe- rencingCharaecers which Tertuilliln giveth between an Infidel and a Chriftian, have taken much withme , and feemed to me excellently accommodated to e 2Ch. fipa.
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