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§ 6. This I must tell the Reader, That the Man speaketh so much worse than he seemeth (by after Contradictions) to think, and hath so little Skill in exact expressing the matter, or his mind, that I can scarce ever pretend with any confidence to know his meaning: For when he hath said worst, and is confuted, he comes over it again, and scorneth us for misunderstanding him, and tells us, that he meant as we do: So that it is his Words that I only undertake to confute, and not his meaning, till I am better able to say, that I know it. Nor would I think it a work beseeming me, to write a Book to tell the World, how unskilful this man is in speaking intelligibly and aptly, if I did not find that others are seduced, by receiving his words in the usual sense of such, not knowing that he meaneth not as he speaketh: So far as he meaneth well, I think I am his Friend, in persuading people to be of his mind, and to believe what he thinks, and not what he saith. And if he hold on his way, and fall not out with the Truth for my sake, I am in hope that the effect also of this Survey will be, that in the next he will renounce all his Errors, save the terms, and will say, that he meant as I did: And then, if he do rail and scorn at me only as misunderstanding him, I can bear it.

§ 6. This I must tell the Reader, That the Man speaketh so much worse than he seemeth (by after Contradictions) to think, and hath so little Skill in exact expressing the matter, or his mind, that I can scarce ever pretend with any confidence to know his meaning: For when he hath said worst, and is confuted, he comes over it again, and scorneth us for misunderstanding him, and tells us, that he meant as we do: So that it is his Words that I only undertake to confute, and not his meaning, till I am better able to say, that I know it. Nor would I think it a work beseeming me, to write a Book to tell the World, how unskilful this man is in speaking intelligibly and aptly, if I did not find that others are seduced, by receiving his words in the usual sence of such, not knowing that he meaneth not as he speaketh: So far as he meaneth well, I think I am his Friend, in perswading people to be of his mind, and to believe what he thinks, and not what he saith. And if he hold on his way, and fall not out with the Truth for my sake, I am in hope that the effect also of this Survey will be, that in the next he will renounce all his Errors, save the terms, and will say, that he meant as I did: And then, if he do rail and scorn at me only as misunderstanding him, I can bear it.