Ans. This is the Objection of those who never •ound that trouble […] these points, which others have done: and possibly because they ••ot read the books with that application to their own hearts, which ••y ought to do. Let such hold their peace. For others who have ••d the trouble, they will say, if I had left out their Names, I had left […] the strongest argument. For they being men as of eminent parts and […], so of very high esteem with Christians. It was their Names that […] Authority to their Doctrines, and caused that trouble to divers se•es Christians. For my part, had I met with such things in the works some other men, I could as easily have passed them over, as I do that operate [I know not what else to call it] Divinity, which I meet with •ame young mens books, put forth in the heat of their affections: but ⟨p. 3⟩these being men so eminent, and all of them [except holy Mr. Perkins, dead before my time] known unto me, the high esteem I beat unto their names, made me to consider my self, and see whether in those particulars, they spake as God spake; for if so; not only my self, but the greatest number of those who go for sound Christians [a hundred for one] must all begin again.
Ans. This is the Objection of those who never •ound that trouble 〈…〉 these points, which others have done: and possibly because they ••ot read the books with that application to their own hearts, which ••y ought to do. Let such hold their peace. For others who have ••d the trouble, they will say, if I had left out their Names, I had left 〈…〉 the strongest argument. For they being men as of eminent parts and 〈…〉, so of very high esteem with Christians. It was their Names that 〈…〉 Authority to their Doctrines, and caused that trouble to divers se•es Christians. For my part, had I met with such things in the works some other men, I could as easily have passed them over, as I do that •perate [I know not what else to call it] Divinity, which I meet with •ame young mens books, put forth in the heat of their affections: but ⟨p. 3⟩these being men so eminent, and all of them [except holy Mr. Perkins, dead before my time] known unto me, the high esteem I beat unto their names, made me to consider my self, and see whether in those particulars, they spake as God spake; for if so; not only my self, but the greatest number of those who go for sound Christians [a hundred for one] must all begin again.
