Catholic communion defended against both extremes, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…Catholick communion defended against both extreams, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…

8. It is when other Ministers do it not, and therefore some one must: And I that have no great impediment from friends, or outward temptations, but wait for my change, am fitter to bear the noise of Censures, than they that I hope may labour longer.

9. And if I do it, it must be now or never: For there is no work in the Grave and Darkness. But of all this, my Reasons say more

III. As to the Manner of my writings, I doubt not but all that ever I wrote, are faulty: I am imperfect, and can do nothing perfectly: I herein suspect this (and all) my self: and which is worst, I have not skill enough on the longest consideration to avoid the faultiness: For I have a strong love to Truth, and hatred of Lying, and specially a love to historical Truth, and hatred to the deceiving of the World and Posterity: And I have a diseased Impatience, (above any ordinary Trial) to hear men rage and be confident in Error, and pour out words for untruths, with unconvincible Fallacy, and speak evil most zealously of that Truth, which they least understand.

III. As to the Manner of my writings, I doubt not but all that ever I wrote, are faulty: I am imperfect, and can do nothing perfectly: I herein suspect this (and all) my self: and which is worst, I have not skill enough on the longest consideration to avoid the faultiness: For I have a strong love to Truth, and hatred of Lying, and specially a love to historical Truth, and hatred to the deceiving of the World and Posterity: And I have a diseased Impatience, (above any ordinary Tryal) to hear men rage and be confident in Error, and pour out words for untruths, with unconvincible Fallacy, and speak evil most zealously of that Truth, which they least understand.