98 11tP mENDIX. Nun-113.1V. Dear Sir, 'Received your Preface, by which you have been pleated to add unto all foi- 1 mer Obligations wherein I Rand bound. I have moved Mr. Simmons about printing the Copy,acquainting himwith your Preface,butnot with the Author of the Papers: but I perceive he hath no mind to undertake it; fine when I have not fpoken to any other. Sir, It bath been fometimes on my thoughts to draw upfome thingagainfi Separation more then . what is in my Retradation, ` at IeaR to be publilhed after my death, if furviving Friends Mould think fit, but have forborn to publilh any thing of that nature hitherto, partly to avoid fufpi- ` don of ftrengthening the handof Severity againR the Separatiltr, to the doing of hurt to whom 1 would not be in the lean aeceffary : and likewife to avoid the fufpitionof being ailed therein by Carnal Motives. However fomething I have now prepared, and herewith tent you, prefumingyetonce more to give you the trouble at your leifiure of calling your eye upon it. And do pray that you will ` pleafe to corred, or dived me to corred what needs come&ion : and to give me advice, whether it will be bell to make it publick, or to forbear. I confefs,l have ` been induced to do what I have done at this time,uponoccafion of the Indulgence, as conceiving it not lets neceffary nor lets fèafonable ,(to fay no more) than it was `before. And your motionof reprintingmyRetradation, had its fhare in inch- ` ning me to this prefent Undertaking. As I have been taken in the Snare of Sepa- ` ration for a time, fo I was in that of Anrinomianifm, about 37 or 38years ago, not long after my firfi coming to London; as not being able to withfland the Infinuati- ` ons of ir, and yet to retain the Opinion of the Imputationof Chrift's Righteouf- ` nefs in that Notion of it, in whichI had been infiruded ; and never fully reco- ' vered my felftill I heard Mr. ÿahn Goodwin. The Experience of what I fuffered ` my felf, and occafioned others tofuffer by my running into thofe Errours, bath put me upon doing more to warn others againR them , or recover them out of them, then otherwife I fhould have thought fit for me to have done. You may perceive inpart how frail my memory was, by my often blottings and interlinings. ` Excufe me for this time, and you are never like to be troubled with any of my ` Papers more, whether I live or die. The good God that bath, out of good will ` tothe World, made you fomeet to be ferviceable to it , continue you long in it, ` and Rillftrengthen you tofucceed, and profper you in his Word : So prays London, Tune 29. roar very much obliged 1672. Servant, Will. Allen. I live next theGreen-Man in Frince'etlreet by Stocks -Market, andnot at the Bottle in the Poultrey. Dear Friend This Day receivedand read your Book and knowing fo well the Author's Ex- perience, Judgment, and Sincerity, it bath made a great change upon my `Judgment ; viz. Whereas I once thought that fouie Mens Ufage of this poor :` of them, did fhewlnott Minifters, and HonèyeendHumanity, made by `which the civil differ from others, tobe with lush Men verylow ; 1 find now my ` better Thoughts of thole Men much revived, by finding that fo good a Man as ` you, can in any Meafùre in filch a time and place fo far millake the cafe as you have done. But long Experience bath acquainted me with more of the Caufe than perhaps you have obferved your felf: That is, r. All Mens Capacities arc narrow, and we cannot look every way at once : Our thoughts are like a Stream ofWater whichwill run bur one way at once, and carry down all that's moveable `in that Stream. When you were for Anabaptiftry and Separation, it's like'ethe
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