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Why talk you of what, and when, and where, and conjecture at the words, as if you would make the Reader believe, that indeed it is some confessed Errors of mine, which you Confuted? and that I take it for an Injury, because I▪ Retracted them? And so you think you salve your Confutation, whatever you do by your Candour and Justice: But you have not so much as Fig-leaves for either. It was the Aphorisms, or Book, that I said was above Twenty years a go Revoked: When in my Treatise of Infant-Baptism, I had craved Animadversions on it, and promised a better Edition, if I Published it any more; I forbade the Reprinting it, till I had time to Correct it; and when many called for it, I still denied them. And when the Cambridge Printer Printed it a second time, he did it by Stealth, pretending it was done beyond Sea. In my Confession Twenty years ago, I gave the Reasons, Preface, pag. 35. [I find that there are some Incautious Passages in my Aphorisms, not fitted to their Reading, that come to suck Poison, and seek for a Word to be Matter of Accusation and Food for their Censuring opinionative Zeal.— And pag. 42. If any Brother understand not any word in ⟨p. 11⟩my Aphorisms which is here Interpreted, or mistake my sense about the Matter of that Book, which is here more fully opened; I must expect, that they interpret that by this. And if any one have so little to do as to write against that Book (which is not unlikely) if he take the Sense contrary to what I have here and else-where since then Published, I shall but neglect him as a Contentious, Vain Wrangler, if not a Calumniator]. I Wrote this sharply, to forwarn the Contentious, not knowing then that above Twenty years after, Dr. Tully would be the Man. Pag. 43. [If any will needs take any thing in this Book to be rather a Retractation, than an Explication, of what I have before said, though I should best know my own Meaning; yet do such commend me, while they seem to blame me: I never look to write that which shall have no need of Correction.— And Cap. 1. pag. 2. [Lest I should prove a further Offence to my Brethren, and a Wrong to the Church, I desired those who thought it worth their Labour, to vouchsafe me their Animadversions, which I have spent much of these Three last years in considering, that I might Correct what-ever was discovered to be Erroneous, and give them an account of my Reasons of the rest.

Why talk you of what, and when, and where, and conjecture at the words, as if you would make the Reader believe, that indeed it is some confessed Errors of mine, which you Confuted? and that I take it for an Injury, because I Retracted them? And so you think you salve your Confutation, whatever you do by your Candour and Justice: But you have not so much as Fig-leaves for either. It was the Aphorisms, or Book, that I said was above Twenty years a go Revoked: When in my Treatise of Infant-Baptism, I had craved Animadversions on it, and promised a better Edition, if I Published it any more; I forbad the Reprinting it, till I had time to Correct it; and when many called for it, I still deny'd them. And when the Cambridg Printer Printed it a second time, he did it by Stealth, pretending it was done beyond Sea. In my Confession Twenty years ago, I gave the Reasons, Preface, pag. 35. [I find that there are some Incautelous Passages in my Aphorisms, not fitted to their Reading, that come to suck Poyson, and seek for a Word to be Matter of Accusation and Food for their Censuring opinionative Zeal.— And pag. 42. If any Brother understand not any word in