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And as to those that are so weak as to need an answer to such a Book, it's like they are too weak to understand one; or will think him in the right that hath the last word, and that may be he that liveth longest. The great fault of the good man is that which is too predominant in all Cases in corrupted Nature, even an unhumbled understanding, which doth not sufficiently suspect it self, much less is acquainted with its own Ignorance, but when it most mistaketh, doth most confidently rage. Who would think that such a man could be ignorant how unfit he was who never saw their Books, to undertake such account as he giveth of Fathers, Protestant Writers, or us his chosen Adversaries? When his Reader hath read to him some parcels of our Writings, how knoweth he what he omitteth▪ or what explications he never read? And how uncapable must his memory needs be of retaining and laying all together out of so many Volumes, and making a charge, and passing a Judgment thereupon, unless his memory be greater far than Bishop Hall saith Dr. John Reynolds reading and memory was [next to a Miracle,] which his gross falsifications show that it is not.

And as to those that are so weak as to need an answer to such a Book, it's like they are too weak to understand one; or will think him in the right that hath the last word, and that may be he that liveth longest. The great fault of the good man is that which is too predominant in all Cases in corrupted Nature, even an unhumbled understanding, which doth not sufficiently suspect it self, much less is acquainted with its own Ignorance, but when it most mistaketh, doth most confidently rage. Who would think that such a man could be ignorant how unfit he was who never saw their Books, to undertake such account as he giveth of Fathers, Protestant Writers, or us his chosen Adversaries? When his Reader hath read to him some parcels of our Writings, how knoweth he what he omitteth▪ or what explications he never read? And how uncapable must his memory needs be of retaining and laying all together out of so many Volumes, and making a charge, and passing a Judgment thereupon, unless his memory be greater far than Bishop Hall saith Dr. John Reynolds reading and memory was [next to a Miracle,] which his gross falsifications shew that it is not.