Necelfary things, in defpight of all the malice ,., of Sa:tan, \vho would have entangled me, and taken up my time, in perfonal vindications and · barren controveriies. As I· never knew that I had one enemy in·the world that ever was aQ– quainted witb me ; fo thofe that kno1V me, dif.. fwading me from Apologies againfi the accufa– tions of thofe that know me not , have fpared my time for better work• .Though there is about · · fifty writings (in whole or part) againA: me publiilied, (by Infidels, Seekers, Familijls, Entbu.. ftafls , fl.!!.akers , Papijls , .Antinomians, Lel1tllers, (o"Veizant-break.ers ,' State-(ub)Jerters , [burcb-ditLJi.- · ders, befides impatient dij]enting '13retbren, and De~ penda~zts that too~ it for the riling way) , I yet r find no caufe ( as CO the p.-e{ent .agt) and tbofe tbat know me ) to be at any great C'\re or pains for a· defence ; while malicious lyes do but make men wonder, that wrinkled Envy fhould be fo mad as to come fo naked on the Stage,and fbew h~r ugly deformities to the world , and could not flay at leaft till Wit had helpt her to a Cloak. · I was alfo when I fidl: intended ~riting un– der another temptation ; heing of their mind that thought that nothing iliould be made· publike, but what a man had fidl: laid out his · choicdl:
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