Section 6

SECT. VI.

We have now done with the Narrative (handsomely contrived in one page) the other fourteen are Apologetical, which they were put upon for three Reasons.

1. To Emblazon the Names of their dead Founders, and prevent the Worlds being mistaken in them: and truly, first Founders deserve a Record, and they should be unworthy Successors if they did not Canonize them: though (as things are circumstanced) some wise men think they had done them a kindness if they had said nothing: and to me, I am sure, for then I had been prevented this undesired task of publishing the follies of men after they are dead. The child doth his Father the best kindness to say nothing of him, when by speaking he doth but revive his Infamy. But I take it for a just judgement of God on that generation of men that by a fallacious Narrative, they should enforce us to make the World acquainted with the scandalous conversation of these beginners, which had otherwise slept in the private ⟨p. 10⟩records of those Churches wherein they were acted.

1. To Emblazon the Names of their dead Founders, and prevent the Worlds being mistaken in them: and truly, first Founders deserve a Record, and they should be unworthy Successors if they did not Canonize them: though (as things are circumstanced) some wise men think they had done them a kindness if they had said nothing: and to me, I am sure, for then I had been prevented this undesired task of publishing the follies of men after they are dead. The childe doth his Father the best kindness to say nothing of him, when by speaking he doth but revive his Infamy. But I take it for a just judgement of God on that generation of men that by a fallacious Narrative, they should enforce us to make the World acquainted with the scandalous conversation of these beginners, which had otherwise slept in the private ⟨p. 10⟩