Against the revolt to a foreign jurisdiction, which would be to England its perjury,…

This Book being Written at several times, most of it many Years ago, and some lately, and answering many Persons who use the same Arguments, it hath one blemish which I am ashamed of in the review: that is, The too oft repeating the same things; especially in my four Letters to Bishop Gunning, occasioned by our oft repeating them in Conference. The thing is usual in long Disputations, (as in the Schoolmen, in Dr. Twice Vind. Grat. and such others, the Adversary making it needful;) But I am far from justifying it: Had I intended it as one orderly Treatise at first, and not written the ⟨image 6⟩Parts on several Occasions, or had I yet Time and Strength to have cast it into a more regular shape it might have been partly amended: But I had rather it came out thus than not at all: Whoever is displeased at it, by guilt or different judgment, I will please my Conscience, whose Peace I find possible and quieting, while such Mens hath been neither hitherto to me.

THis Book being Written at several times, most of it many Years ago, and some lately, and answering many Persons who use the same Arguments, it hath one blemish which I am ashamed of in the review: that is, The too oft repeating the same things; especially in my four Letters to Bishop Guning, occasioned by our oft repeating them in Conference. The thing is usual in long Disputations, (as in the Schoolmen, in Dr. Twisse Vind. Grat. and such others, the Adversary making it needful;) But I am far from justifying it: Had I intended it as one orderly Treatise at first, and not written the ⟨image 6⟩Parts on several Occasions, or had I yet Time and Strength to have cast it into a more regular shape it might have been partly amended: But I had rather it came out thus than not at all: Whoever is displeased at it, by guilt or different judgment, I will please my Conscience, whose Peace I find possible and quietting, while such Mens hath been neither hitherto to me.

I know that Age and Natural Weakness, hath been part of the Cause of my forgetting oft that I had written the same before. But while I confess this Infirmity, I will tell the Reader two Stories for his use of it.