A post-script to the late letter of the reconcilableness of God's prescience, &cA post-script to the late letter of the reconcileableness of God's prescience, &c

I plead nothing of merit in this little Essay, only I say for ⟨p. 13⟩it, that I know not what it can be guilty of towards this learned man, that can have occasioned this assault upon it by his Pen. By how much the less it keeps his road, the more I might have thought it out of the way of his notice. I am sure it meant him no harm, nor had any design to pilfer from him any part of his Collections.

But he says, he may not let it pass. Then there is no remedy. But I wonder what he should mean by he may not. It must either mean, that he thought it unlawful to let it pass, or that he had a mighty strong and irresistible inclination to squabble a little with it. The former cannot be imagined. For then, for the same reason, he would have attempted sundry others of former and ⟨p. 14⟩later days, that have said much to the purpose, which this Letter doth but touch obiter, and on the By; in its way to another design. But those were Giants, whom it was not so safe to meddle with. Therefore he could very wisely let them pass, tho they have wounded his beloved Cause, beyond all that it is in the power of his, (or any) Art to Cure.

But he says, he may not let it pass. Then there is no remedy. But I wonder what he should mean by he may not. It must either mean, that he thought it unlawful to let it pass, or that he had a mighty strong and irresistible inclination to sqabble a little with it. The former cannot be imagined. For then, for the same reason, he would have attempted sundry others of former and ⟨p. 14⟩later days, that have said much to the purpose, which this Letter doth but touch obiter, and on the By; in its way to another design. But those were Giants, whom it was not so safe to meddle with. Therefore he could very wisely let them pass, tho they have wounded his beloved Cause, beyond all that it is in the power of his, (or any) Art to Cure.