Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

It is not more Shameful than Certain, That Historians very Commonly Write as Tools of a party, to which every one may see, they are as much Addicted, as Fabius and Philimus the two Opposite Writers of the Carthaginian War, were to Theirs. What a Credible Writer of History, was Paulus Jovius, a Bishop; with whom the Execrable John Bosilovitz is cried up as A Good and Devout Christian; and of whom they tell us, that he bragged he had one Pen of Gold, for his Friends, and another of Iron, for them that had not purchased his Favours; and the more impartial Thuanus affirms, Ad Gratiam et in Odium Scripsisse, et Venalem Calamum babuisse, fere Omnibus persuasum est. But how many more may this be Affirmed of? If the Reformed in France might once make their just Remonstrances, against such Historians as a Florimond de Remond, or a Varillas, I am sure, their Brethren the Non-Conformists in England, may make the same concerning some English Histories, that must pass for Uncontradictable Things. The True History of a Lucian, has as much Truth in it as they have, when some Affairs & Persons come in their way! The Motto to be Inscribed on them is, Omnia pro Tempore, nihi! pro Veritate. The Time and not ⟨p. v⟩the Truth, Governs the Pen in all the Motions of it. And of these I know some that will Venture to say, Many have done viciously, but thou Eachard, in some things Excellest them all: Except a Collier may be a Rival to thee. In the mean time, would not the Dissenters be more Wise for their Generation, if more Effectual care were taken, to transmit more Faithful Records unto Posterity? Consider of it, take Advice, and speak your Minds!

It is not more Shameful than Certain, That Historians very Commonly Write as Tools of a party, to which every one may see, they are as much Addicted, as Fabius and Philimus the two Opposite Writers of the Carthaginian War, were to Theirs. What a Credible Writer of History, was Paulus Jovius, a Bishop; with whom the Execrable John Bosilovitz is cryed up as A Good and Devout Christian; and of whom they tell us, that he brag'd he had one Pen of Gold, for his Friends, and another of Iron, for them that had not purchased his Favours; and the more impartial Thuanus affirms, Ad Gratiam et in Odium Scripsisse, et Venalem Calamum babuisse, fere Omnibus persuasum est. But how many more may this be Affirmed of? If the Reformed in France might once make their just Remonstrances, against such Historians as a Florimond de Remond, or a Varillas, I am sure, their Brethren the Non-Conformists in England, may make the same concerning some English Histories, that must pass for Uncontradictable Things. The True History of a Lucian, has as much Truth in it as they have, when some Affairs & Persons come in their way! The Motto to be Inscribed on them is, Omnia pro Tempore, nihi! pro Veritate. The Time and not