A letter written out of the country to a person of quality in the…A letter written out of the countrey to a person of quality in the…

If here the Doctor should assume to himself to tell us not only that we err herein (whereof we are to regard his proof, as it shall be considered by and by, more than his Affirmation:) But also that our Error is wilful, we shall appeal from him to one that better knows, how willingly, how gladly we should receive information, and admit the belief, that we ought to content our selves entirely and only with such provisions as the established Religion, (to use the Doctors phrase) allows us, if the evidence of the thing it self did not seem irresistibly and unavoidably to persuade us otherwise. And for him to say so, were but to suppose men wilful, only for not being of his mind, who can as easily think him so, for not being of theirs.

If here the Doctor should assume to himself to tell us not only that we erre herein (whereof we are to regard his proof, as it shall be considered by and by, more than his Affirmation:) But also that our Error is wilful, we shall appeal from him to one that better knows, how willingly, how gladly we should receive information, and admit the belief, that we ought to content our selves entirely and only with such provisions as the established Religion, (to use the Doctors phrase) allows us, if the evidence of the thing it self did not seem irresistibly and unavoidably to perswade us otherwise. And for him to say so, were but to suppose men wilful, only for not being of his mind, who can as easily think him so, for not being of theirs.

But this cannot be a Question between the Doctor and us; whom, as we have taken notice above, he hath so ⟨p. 13⟩far obliged, as to admit p. 37. That we generally judge as we practice, and that it is not to be supposed that faction among us should so commonly prevail beyond interest.