i48 ) on what hand that workwas now like to fall, I thought, ß pergana dextra, &c. and amof the fame Mind But my ex.pec"lation being fruftrate, ofreprefenting our -whole Caufe truly ftated, for the PreventionofMiftakes, by the coming out of thisBook againft allfarts ofNon- conformifls, I thought it convenient to publiíh this fartt Tart of what I had defigned, and to annex unto it the enfuing Defence of the Vindication of Non-conformills, from the charge of schifine. For although I do know that there is nothing material in the whole.Book of the 7.inreafnablenef of separation, but what is obviated or anfwered before hand, in the preceeding Difcourfe ; fo as that the Principles and Demonftrations of them con- tained therein may eafily be applyed unto all the Rea- fonings, Exceptions, and Pleas, in and of that Book, to render them ufelefs unto the End defigned, which is to reinforce a charge ofschifrne againft us ; Yet I think it neceffary to Phew how unfucceffill, from the difadvan- rage ofhis Caufe, the Do&or hath been in his laborious endeavour to ftigmatize all Proteftant Diffenters from the Church ofEngland, with the odious name ofschif- Naticks. I have therefore altered nothing ofwhat I had projected, either as to Matter or Method in this firft Part ofthe Difcöurfe defigned on the whole Subje&of Church Affairs. For as I have not found either Caufe or Reafon from any thing in the DoElors Book to make the leaft change in what I had written, fo my principal Defign being the Inftrution and confirmationof them, who have no other Intereft in thefe things, but only to know and perform their own Duty, I was not willing to give them the trouble of perpetual diverfions from the Matter in hand, which all Controverfial Writings .areSubjeólunto. Wherefore having premifed Tome ge- neral
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