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 ...…

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.

And in this Impatience, I am apt to fit my Confutations to the Cause, taking words to be false, that are not to be adapted to the Matter: But when I have done, the guilty, (yea and their favourers) cannot bear them, and the words fit not the hearer which fit the Matter, but the Disease is exasperated by the Medicine. But then I think what's needful to save those that are not yet infected, and to silence reproaching Enemies, tho the guilt be not cured.