A Preface to the Reader. Motives indu- cingtheauthor to unde;t;ke this Traufe. forth.. But in cafe the other members hold any proportion with this (which we look upon as the head) for bulk I (hall with him in the perufal of all. i. A great deale ofleifure, fo many Tomes will not be fo eafily digefted as here is boded; He mull have much (pare time, if he fpare fo much time as to run all over. 2.More induflry and diligence to follow our Author (at, lea (t in very many places) without any clew in his labyrinth.As to inftance in hisvindication of his ten great Arguments(Secl. 2. of this firft part) from Mr. Geree's An fwer. He gives no account of the Argument it felf farther! then can be pickt out of fo much of Mr. Gerees Anfwer as he is pleafed to repeat, but his Reader muff be at the coft for his Apology, and then at pains to fearch the Seciion and page for it. He acquaints us with anfwers of Mr. Gerees, but we know not the book, where thefe anfwers are, and when we have it, we mull hunt it through to finde the bufineffe in a- gitation.The Reader that is intent upon the truth,will finde this to be a bufineffe. 3. Above all,I (hall with him patience as to bear all this bulk, (for none knows whither it may fwell) and undergo all this toil; fo to fuller all that he muff meet withal,fuch_ that can be found in few other learnedAu- thors, and being thus prepared, I (hall not fear, but by Gods affiffance, he may paffe through the work without danger of taint in his judgement. As to my fellI requeft one thing from Mr. Tombes,that in cafe hevouchfafe any Reply to that which he (hall finde in reference to himfelf in this Treatife, that he will take care that force befides himfelf may take to bean anfwer, and that when he bath anfwered, his friends may not fä11 importune him for an anriver as in his lift it fared with him, as page 49. of his Antipad. we havefrom his own hand. But to leave what is_paff, and give Come account of my- purpofe in theevork in hand,being thus farre engaged in this bufineffe, I.was unwilling to be filent, left the truth (for which,
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