The cure of church-divisions, or, Directions for weak Christians to keep them from being…

Do I speak according to the most common judgment of Divines▪ The Sectary saith, my light is divine: I speak but by rote, and not by true illumination. Do I pretend to add any clearness to the methods or points received, or to correct any error which hath got the major Vote of the injudicious? Then I am self conceited, and a novelist; and if not a heretic, its well I And the honour of all the Divines which are of a contrary mind, must be engaged to promote the Censure. And the fear that sober Christians have of novelty and error, must be called up to make them abhor any truth which the grave and ignorant censurer doth not understand: And they that confess that they never seriously read what I have written, on such or such a subject, yet have wisdom and honesty little enough to say behind my back, O take heed of such a mans Books, for they are tantum non heretical▪ Though in presence they are as gentle as Lambs, or as quickly silenced (or worse) as the Owls at the approach of da• light: If such a judicious Writer, as Camer, or Dav•nant, or Usher, or Gracious, or Bengi••, or Amyrald, or Placa•u•, or •apellus, or Test•rdus, or Blondel, or D•ll•us, or […] Blan• (in his late excellent impartial judicious Theses) or Junius, or V•ssius, or Strangius, &c. do tell any of the unstudied or injudicious sort of Divines, any more than they have received from that party of Teachers, who are in greatest reputation with them; you shall ⟨p. 144⟩have those that never understood them, tell the ignorant (that cannot contradict them) how erroneous they are, and how they contradict themselves: and what inconsistencies and absurdities they speak: And it all goes down with deluded auditors, as if the Speaker were an Oracle; or at least, knew what he said.