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The
Preface:
(though nothing
.tut
tgh
ept:ma:to
o,
and
Aliettivn
y
Motive.)
The
Letters
that
raft
between
sis
were
never intended
for
the
view
of
the world
r
And
therefore
1mull
de
fire
the Reader
to
remember
it,
if
[onetime
1
be
more
prefsing
and vehement,then'manners and
reverence require
;
be-
caufe
we
life
to
fpeak
freelier
its
private
among
Piends,
then in
the
hearing
of
the world.
tAnd
yet
I
thought
it
my
duty
now to
joyn
them with
the
refs
for
theft
,deafens.
.
Becaufe
fome pa
ff
ages
in
the
Writings
of
this
Reverend
Brother,
do
in
a
manner
invite
me to
it.
2.
Becaufe
the
matter
requireth
me
to
fJ
eak
the fame
things
;
and
there-
fore
it
is
as
good
affix
the old
,
as
be
at
the fame
.labour
needlefly
again. 3.
And
it
can b`
no
wrong
to
him,
be-
e-dale
it
is
my
own
Papers
that
are the
nain
bulk
of
what
1
publi
fh
:
His
Letters
being
brief
,
and annexed
but as
the
occafions
of
mine.
4.
But
of
ecially,
1
was
brought
to
think
it
meet,
by
the
open
blame
that
I
have
received
from
fame very
dear
and
Reverend
Brethren,
for
not pre
-
ventingthis
publike
Conte
ft. And
therefore
.I
thought
good
to
let them
fee,
that
1
was
not
wholly
wanting
to
pre
-
vent
it.
if
there
be
any
pikes
inthefe
Writings
too
eager
or
.provoking
(which
I
mu
fl
needs
fu
fpeti
even
where
1
have
not obferved them, as being
confciotss
of
too
keen
a
fide,
forgetting
the
per.
funs
while
1
freak
meetly
to
the
words
and matter,)
1
do
intreat
my
Brethren
to
pardon
it,s
be-
ing
not defigned
to
their
provocation
or
di(honour,and
ruI
_heartily
do
the like
by
theirs,
and
as
1
hope
God
will
do.
both
theirs
and
mine.
And
1
do
adjure the
Reader
tAbe'
lieve
that
this
Controverte
:
for
all
our
infirmities
is
ma-
naged with
a
very high
efleem
and
honour-
of
thole
Reve-
tend
Brethren,
whores
lam
nece
f
citated
to ,t7ainfay.
Nor
n>>1uld