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A67003	A short letter modestly intreating a friends judgement upon Mr. Edwards, his booke he calleth an Anti-apologie, with a large but modest answer thereunto framed, in desire, with such evennesse of hand, and uprightnesse of heart, as that no godly man might be effended at it : and with soule-desire also, that they, who are contrary-minded, might not be offended neither, but instructed.	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.; Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.	1644 (1644)	Wing W3502; ESTC R18279	37,876	40

Selah There is a river whose floods are butter and honey strong consolations the streames whereof shall make glad the City of God Selah The floods are listed up the floods have lifted up their voice when ye have these repetitions you have a great observation before your eye The floods lift-up their waves Be not afraid at all this remember the LORD Who is GREAT The LORD on high is mightier then the noise of many waters the mighty waves of the sea that is He is a Rock This Rock answers all Objections The Rock of Ages b in Him is everlasting strength A ground sure and stable whereon to build everlasting confidence Let us doe our duty fall close to our work keepe close to our Rock strong in Him through the power of His might Amen Thus Sir I have given Answer to your Letter with strong desire and endeavour all along to render it sutable to the good word of God to the rule and method of Charity there to the example and practise of Gods best servants there and every where and best agreeing with the sweetnesse of your spirit wholy spent in the persuance of Truth and Peace Now the God of Truth and Peace leade us into all Truth give us peace by all meanes Amen Sir I am Your most affectionate Friend and indeed obliged servant for your faithfull labour and unwearied paines in the worke and service of the Gospell HEZEKIAH WOODWARD From my house in Aldermanbury 12. Aug. 1644. To the Reader NOw thou mayest reade the Books thou hast haply heard much spoken against and mayest now give thy judgement thereupon If before thou hadst so done thou mightest now judge thy selfe for being too hasty in so doing The Booke had gone abroad a fortnight sooner had I not desired heartily and accordingly prepared to affix unto it some after-lines the issue and result of after-thoughts But these were not thought seasonable not now to t●● art and crosse 〈…〉 other setting judgement against judgement and standing single to many and those Divines at Sion which yet my conscience tels 〈◊〉 I could doe and yet maintaine the peace of Zion and the bands of the brotherhood whole and entire But the contrary war feared and thereupon judiciously I speaks from my heart concluded with strong reference to our LORDS practise in a different case least we should offend them who would Mat. 17. 〈◊〉 not be offended That the after-lines must perish as an untimely birth or lye at the place of the breaking-forth of such children the conceptions and issue of our thoughts formed and made legible to the world so a bar was put-in against them Be it so and best content I am it should bb so rather then any the least and just offence should be given to them who indeed should not be offended Only this I would take leave to say The searcher of all hearts knowes That what by His assistance I have done in the former or the after-work I have done all not to please or displease any man And therefore if men had been displeased that was the feare they are but men As I cannot be carelesse of it so I cannot be carefull about it for my testimony is with-in and my witnesse above That All I did was done to please God In strong references to His glory The beating-out the way of Christ The making His Government upon His shoulders glorious before our eyes The composing these sa●d differences amongst us in speciall th●se th●n have been occasioned by Mr Edwards his Books The rendring him more gracefull to his people his gifts and graces also more usefull to the Church in after-time And that if the Brethren have walked as men or as it is suggested then that they should be humbled for so walking give glory to God take diligent care to make their watch the stronger that they doe so no more And that they stand no longer at a distance as it is conceived they due with those who love them next to their own soules But rather to communicate to us whose debtors also they are their Scripture light whereby we may more cleerely discerne into their so questioned way of Church-Governement That so the Truths there being cleered The errors there beaten-out the one may be embraced th' other rejected As all these things before spoken were the very bent and true intention of my soule so helpe me God Amen I will close with the Apostles words because I would leave them fixed upon our hearts Stand ye fast in one spirit with one mind striving together for the faith of the Gospell And in nothing terrified by your adversaries a a Phil. 1. 27 28. No though they are high now yet be not terrified God is still above them and we are not so low but an Almighty hand can raise us up againe And if we are at the lowest now then now be not terrified encouraged rather now for now will the hand of the Lord be stretched-out to work a glorious deliverance even now now now so often repeated in one verse to assure us That God is then neerest to His people when they are at the lowest ebb of misery and farthest off from His adversaries when they are at the highest pinnacle of their seeming prosperity Now I will up saith the LORD A gracious promise we must looke unto it and 〈◊〉 upon it The word is never more comfortable then now now that the workes and providences of God stand crosse thereunto and Gods hand is rough and heavy upon the loynes of his servants Then the voice is sweetest when the hand is heaviest b b When the Church is up and the Adversaries are down then seise has matter to feed upon But when as now the Adversaries seem to be high and the Church low then there is aboundant matter ●i●h ●…ses for Faith to feed on A. Yea but now is the Adversaries day for mirth and laughter they are gladded to the heart now in the day of their King we can see them drunk with joy and with wine too * * This is the manner of the Malignants rejoy●ing on the 〈◊〉 of their King To take their fill of the creature so as to 〈◊〉 the reason to a drunkennesse in the day time As five roarers were found to be the last Lords day Sept. 9 and paid for their drunkennesse what the Law commanded them and their Hostis And one kissed the stocks to teach him more and then reaching forth their hands with scorners Hos. 〈◊〉 5. B. Let them laugh it is their day they think and they know not That their day is comming Give them leave to be merry but not to be drunk it is the houre of their joy and but for an houre He that laughs anon laughs too sayes the Proverb But we must laugh manners and render him more sober man now and be heartily merry after a godly sort now for now we see their day is comming a a Psal.

way their zeale may goe-forth at the dispute about it and passion may get in Then Reasons like a bad hound speeds upon a false sent and forsakes the question first started Sir you are at the end of my Preface now to my undertaking The Authour first then to his Epistle and so to the Booke and some resolves thereupon and then an end The Authour you are pleased to Name him so will I for honour sake But before I come at him I will reach forth my hand unto him and my heart for these shall never goe single My heart is towards him and to God for him That the Lord would shine upon him and his gifts that so neither he nor they may runne-out any more to waste as persons and graces doe which doe not promote the Glory of God and the salvation of soules Now I am come to him I suspect my selfe and my loving respects towards him least they carry me beyond my bounds in his commendation Truly I cannot tell in what one thing the man is wanting to make him compleat except in Charity that is a great exception and some say he is so wanting therein that he has no charity at all yet that is the everlasting grace and compleats all yea some doe not straine to say he is a man of a malignant spirit and he hath shewed forth openly nothing else he must be content to fall under censure Truly I think they say not well and so good he thinks himselfe he cares not what they say and there he may be too carelesse But for my part I would rather I could say he is a man of an excellent spirit but then my love transporting me I should say too much Yet this I must say he is very high in my thoughts not a whit higher in others account almost as he is in his owne and he hath improved his growth not a little within these foure yeares for then he was matched by he knoweth whom surely the Lord would have had him accounted that as a spetting in his face and now he hath attained to that height in the eyes of all the learned that he is too tall a match for a woman Good man Indeed the best have their failings God hath left him to himselfe as he hath said of his Brethren To try him that he might know all that was in his heart And now all know it I thinke better than himselfe for palam est It is all abroad and in every mans eare and eye what was in his heart so secret there this seven yeares upon my knowledge And here I could tell the Reader something from thence from what I know more what I heard from an excellent Master in Israel and his best Disciples in Hartford But I must not doe that my selfe which I must reprove in him for I never spake with him about it neither alone nor before others Nor would I for a world render Gath and Askelon debtors unto me Bristoll and Oxford God forbid That I should give the Philistines there matter of rejoycing or the uncircumcised there cause of Triumph Whether the reverend Authour of this Anti-Apolog hath not more rejoyced the Adversaries to the Truth than edified her Friends in their most holy Faith requires his most retired serious and saddest thoughts That so he may as he may see cause give check to his busie pen in his zeal for God and his cause he hath given his word he will not cease writing lest while in his zeal for the beating-out and clearing the Truths of God and the way of his Servants he darkens those Truths and layes scandals in the way whereby to grieve the Brethren and rejoyce the enemies to all Righteousnesse And then the more paines he takes the more worke he makes for repentings The Lord be a Light and Guide unto him now That his after-labour may be a labour of love and his worke a worke of Faith Then may he be patient in hope That he shall see the travell of his soule So I would bespeake him now and assure him That neither his Person nor his Graces have one graine the lesse waight in my esteeme because he is for the Presbyterian-way So are they and they the most the savour of whose Graces are now as is the savour of the sweetest oyntmeut all over the House and houshold of God for they are for That way whatever we call it which they are perswaded is the way of Christ And the Searcher of all hearts knowes my desire touching him is 1. That he for after time may give no occasion to those with-out to blaspheme or to them with-in To thinke he is against the strictnesse and purity of the way of Christ 2. And that not one drop of the Anointing he has received from the Father may run-out in vaine but that in his pursuance after peace he may maintaine the peace of the Church by all meanes Keeping the unitie of the Spirit in the bond thereof So much to bespeake him and his patience while for my friends satisfaction I give judgement of his Booke in the same order as it lieth The Epistle first It is well compact a sheet compleat and answers M●Sympson sheet for sheet Yet Mr Sympson his second Position there stands unshaken upon its Basis of Truth That for a son of the same Mother to divulge the faults of his Brethren is not brother-like but quite beside the Rule of the Word and way of Gods holy ones Mr Edwards saith no and argueth the negat tels us in what cases the Brethren have divulged the faults of their Brethren But that was not to the case in question for it was not the case between his Brethren and him As I suppose every man will see that hath read the Apoll. Narr and his Booke against it which I did read next a sheet or two and there about I brake off for there me thought I met with too common and unbecomming language agreeable to a mans own spirit which like fire cannot be but it must break forth and so disagreeing to That spirit we should breath after that I cast downe the Booke with some distaste and then fell a dipping here I dipped and there I dipped a snatch and away as they say the dogge does in Nilus and for the same Logicke a dog hath because there are serpents there such biting things Indeed I discerned quickly the frame of the Booke and the spirit of the man heated above its due proportion in such matters and that my best way was to dip and away and so I hastened to the close of the booke the last leafe wherein the good man summons This Church and That and a third and all are but one to come at his call and to doe as he bids them * Truly Sir I could smile to see how the masters of their Assemblies stirre now like a mountaine which one man very imperiously bad come unto him the mountaine moved like

it That it was not Clypeus a buckler as the word imports also but a very Aspe a stinging Booke I conceive Mel. meaning to be so by that which followes I cannot tell sayes he what Luther will say to this Booke something sure he will reply and if so I shall entreat the man by all Scripture Obligations That what he saies may be with brevity in simplicitie of heart and without passion no bitternesse there none at all That was Mel. advise and that was his owne practise as we shall heare anon I will record M. Calvins practise next Luther was a man of an excellent spirit The Lord had heated it for those cold times But many times there were the workings of his owne spirit these wrought and put forth sometimes and once he was a little more eager then was comely against Calvin Well sayes Calvin Luther may say what he pleaseth of me he may call me dog if hee please but I must call him as I have ever accounted of him a pretious and excellent servant of the Lord so Calvin M. Ainsworth though dead yet speaketh for our instruction He was a man of a cleare judgement in the fundamentall Truths of God differed only from his Brethren in some circumstantials which were controverted mostly betweene him and M. P. his neighbour and very calmely still by M. Ainsworth That no difference might appeare in affections and so being able to master his passion he was still master of the Dispute M. P. fals upon M. Ains. in another businesse faulteth his translation of Moses 5. bookes That sometimes he useth the Hebrew word in the line sometimes that in the Margin And this he so forceth against M. Ainsw. that it did appeare plainly that the greatest differences between them were caused by the contrariety of M. P. affections towards M. Ainsw. M. Ainsw. thought himself engaged to make Reply to M. P. which he hath done and left out all personall matters as if he had not been concerned therein not at all for the Glory of God was not and fals upon the point payes that and cleares his translation before the eyes of all the learned in the world A good example to teach us how to manage a dispute M. Dury shall be the last an excellent Man and as good a pattern to write by for he followeth Truth and Peace decently and in Order and sheweth us all the way how we must pursue after it also if we mean to overtake it how so as we should rather breake all our bones then the peace of the Church This man hath had the fight of the Apol. Nar. hath throughly perused it doth appeare now in print That his judgement cannot fully close with it layeth downe his grounds of dissenting telleth us his well digested thoughts about it communicates his light to his brethren by which he walketh Intreateth his brethren to shew him their light Parswadeth all to come-up close to the light of Heaven So he maintaineth the brother-hood and maketh their bands stronger That is his aime and the bent of his soul all along And how well becomming a Son of Peace all this I could never saith one divide my selfe from any upon the difference of an opinion or be angry with his judgement for not agreeing with mine in that from which perhaps within few dayes I should dissent my selfe This thrust in it selfe while my thoughts were upon M. Dury and the way he hath and doth take to compose the fewdes and angry dissentions betwixt brethren by shewing forth this sweetnesse of spirit as one that would give all men to know That a good cause needeth not to be patronized by a passion but can sustaine it selfe best of all upon a temperate dispute A. M. Ed. speaketh onely Argumentativè by way of dispute only and that he might cry victoria he made the Arguments the sharper B. Very well but he should remember Melanct. rule We must every one dispute so That Truth may have the victory and charitie the triumph Though I am at a losse in my dispute said he I would not loose my patience and fall-out with my friends for then the Adversary will be a gainer and the Cause will be at a losse A sweet speech if it could sinke downe into our hearts it would perfume our spirits our tongues and pens also which have not been dipped only but steeped in vinegar and gall It would teach us to Reason a out our case like sober men not rave like mad men I le proceed a little further that I may propose Phi. Melanct. with whom as with Luther the Anti-Apol is so well acquainted for his and our Imitation I pray you heartily saies he Let Truth contend in its own strength and with its owne weapons not with yours they are commonly contumelies and nothing else We are all debtors to charitie which I pray from my heart may be kept inviolate and untouched Amen Yet this I le contribute more That Man is not fit to be a Champion for Truth who cannot Answer some Adversaries with silence and master sturdy and boysterous Arguments upon his knees This was Mel. manner his Adversaries rather Truths Adversaries infested him like Waspes he overcame them with patience saying nothing b sometimes and when he replyed it was with such softnesse that his words fell like snow with such meeknesse and modeation as if his words had been dipped in honey It may be replyed here A. What will you inferre from all this No more but what will be granted That the Anti-Apol has not done all things decently and in order not keeping so close to his Rule nor following the example of his betters Men are men every man hath not the same spirit nor one of an hundred such a sweet spirit as Phi. Melanct. had The Anti-Apol has done very well in the judgement of the best learned and best men in all our City for so I heare B. Very ill sure And that I may cleare it to every mans understanding I le make a supposition and upon that a question then you shall be able to give judgement on M. Edwards booke Suppose That my selfe or some other man having the same spirit M. Ed. has else he could not doe it should write against five of his brethren more or fewer who are for the Presbyterian way of Government I confesse I doe most unwillingly make mention of Presbyterian and Independent I am perswaded all the good and choice men are for the old-way the way of CHRIST and his Apostles for that way they are in the desire and travell of their soules But I must speake with the vulgar and to their understanding suppose I say That I could pick out five Ministers accounted Brethren now and are I suppose heartily now for the Presbyterian way of Government and should bend my pen against them I would not use the places M. Ed found in his Topicks nor take the helps he met with in

Adversaries are joynted shall we be dis-joynted platted together like thornes they shall we touch one another like nettles The enemy is resolved upon the question with one consent Come let us put out the light of Israel Be we resolved that we will joyne heads and hands and hearts to magnifie God and our office so to exalt the light of Israel The enemy sayes now a confederacy We must not say a confederacy as if we were confederate to cast shame and reproach each upon other The enemies are confederate against us It teacheth us how we should be close with our God and with our selves shut up together as with a close seale That all may be said of us as it followes in that place and is spoken of the Leviathans seales To perswade to all this I will tell the Parable where with Bessarius would perswade all Christian Princes to hold together and joyne all their forces against their sworne enemie who was single with him plurall with us The Turk and the Pope The Parable is this The Wolves and the dogs were marching on-ward one against the other purposing to joyne forces next morning The wolves that they might the better count their own cost and know the strength of their Adversaries send forth a Master-Wolfe as their Scout by which name I will call him The Scout returnes tels his Generall with his Captaine and fellow souldiers That indeed the Dogs their enemies exceeded them in number many more But sayes the Scout no cause of discouragement at all for an observation I made touching our Adversaries which is this The Dogges are not one like another a few Ma●●ives there be but the most are little Curies which will make a noise and barke at the Moon and be 〈◊〉 at their shadow but that which comforted me most of all and may put courage into you was I observed them matching along as if they were more offended with themselves than with us not keeping their ranks neither but grinning and sharling and biting sometimes tearing each other as if they would save us a labour Masters said the scout march-on resolutely confidently our enemies are their own en●mies enemies to themselves and their own peace they bite and devoure each other we shall devoure them sure they shall be bread and meat for us This is as soon understood as read I need not expound the parable nor doth Melancthon from whom I took it he gives a very short exhortation upon it but of infinite use therefore I will enlarge it Brethren sayes he I beseech you by the mercies of Christ shew mercy one to another By the kindnesse of Christ be ye kind by the bowels of Christ shew that you have bowels by all Scripture obligations and bands of the brother-hood live like brethren be of one mind and then ye shall know the mind of Christ Be of one judgement in the things of God and ye shall escape the judgement of the world This is as possible sure as it is Christian-like Two men that had the Devill in them lived in one place and did agree because they had the same spirit in them both Cannot you do so that looke to live in one Heaven and doe professe that Christ lives in you now you are upon the earth by His Spirit Surely if you have the Spirit of Christ you can live together on the same earth keeping the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace Amen And yet I have not done We will take the Apostles admonition too If there be any consolation c. for we should proceed in the Chapter where we shall find the strongest bonds to bind us to the peace and good behaviour But if we are such children of Belial we will cast away such cords yet they that l●ve Truth heartily and seeke Peace earnestly may be grieved as Sir you are and offended but not discouraged it all that for consider first Truth is the strongest thing upon earth we all say and as its strength is so it shall prevaile we all know and get the victory at the last which shall be the more glorious the more it is opposed They that see their faces against their brethren like flint and their words as hard as steele shall strike forth some sparkes of Truth by this contention whereby to give more lustre of clearenesse thereunto Truth will be a gainer by all a● last A. I but while Truth is pursued ●eace is lost B. Yes and that may be by our own fault and it is but the Peace of the world neither and what wise man setteth his heart upon that The Peace of God is perfected that is the second consideration by all this in the mouthes and hearts of His children Let them looke to the keeping of Truth it is not possible they should loose Peace or themselves Because thou hast kept the word of My patience that is the word of Truth not kept but by those in whom patience hath a perfect work I will also keep thee See there If we keep God will keep we His word and He us from the houre of temptation which is now come upon all the world to try the inhabitants there A sweet promise I will conclude with the words of Luther upon the like subject perswading the people by setting up a faithfull Ministery to advance Truth The Sea of Rome of our trouble riseth high saith he The floods lift up their voice that is our adversaries are mighty What are their wills and endeavours now They will take Truth from the earth Eye● when you see such stirrs and tumults the cause of God is in hand His Truth maintained hence all our trouble never any thing but Truth was so opposed But saith Luther beare-up against wind and tide stormes and tempests and feare not your standing we may be as fearelesse as our Rock is and our Rock feares not the rage of men nor roare of the Devils they roare now and their servants are mad upon their Idols and with rage It is neither strange nor wonderfull the contrary had been so If the Prince and Princes of the world did neither roare nor rage now now that they see their Kingdome is in danger that had been a wonder indeed a marvaile in Heaven What would you have them doe What but like themselves roare and rage and make tumults But he not dismaied at all this but encouraged rather Reade Christians ye that are Christians indeed reade and observe what ye reade That God laughs now and shall His servants cry now No God forbids it they must be merry now and being merry they must sing high the 46. Psalme and at every full point a Selah God is our refuge and strength Selah A very present helpe in trouble Selah Therefore will not we feare though the earth be removed and though the mountaines be carried into the midst of the sea Though the waters thereof roare and be troubled though the mountaines shake with the swelling thereof

shall heare of the patience of Job Whatsoever things are lovely of good report if there be any virtue if any praise this you shall heare from the tongues and pens of good men for they thinke on these things And indeed it is according to a notable rule in Heraldry I can but point to it a But it is the more notable because it is according to the rule in the word the mind of God and of all His people I humbly conceive now let my betters give their judgement This Rev. brother hath gone cleane thwart to this rule for whatever things are I will not say untrue dishonest unjust unpure unlovely of bad report If any errour 〈◊〉 swerving from the rule if any dishonour he thought of these things and hath spoken to all the world that will heare them A great transgression sure what have his bretheren delivered no truths nothing honest nothing just nothing pure nothing lovely nothing of good report what not any vertue in them not any thing praise-worthy surely if there be but no man makes it a question he should have thought on these things A. So he doth he exalteth them very high and praiseth them in fine straines of Rhetorick B. He doth indeed he lifteth them-up high that he may throw them downe with a witnesse he praiseth their learning and I know not what But Sir there is an art of praising so to praise men that thereby a man may sharpen a reproach make it enter and stick the faster Such an art there is A. The same may be said of you that you have the same art to commend a man for his gifts but with such an exception as shall disgrace him the more B. What I have said I have said heartily his gifts are of pretious account with me that they may be of the same use to the Church of God I shall tell him how just my exceptions are in his commendations I remember Cicero writing to his brother Qui●tus wisheth that he could heare him commended without an exception It is my desire also but so saith he I cannot heare All say of you that you are a good man but all say you are an angry man so much I must say The Anti-Apolog a good man no doubt but a man of no good spirit sure a great deale too hasty and too easily stirred This shall be concluded from the premises as the result of all that went before That he hath not shewen forth GODS Spirit but his own spirit in his Booke That is the point and thus I cleare it He did omit a Christian duty towards his brethren before he put forth his Booke He should have spoken with them before first more privately then more publikely and have kept-in his Booke longer I take it from Gods word the Rule of charity also so he stood bound to doe to convent his brethren in a private way first before he set them upon the stage before all the world A. No That rule is to be understood of private offences Had the Apologists offended Mr Edwards only he had dealt with them according to his Scripture-Rule But they had given offence to the whole Church of God B. How will that appeare for the question must be understood here of their personall failings in their converse and walking amongst themselves or before others And touching these matters so neerely concerning the good of soules and the bands of brother-hood He should not have taken-up matters upon trust from heare-say that common lyer but in imitation of the Lord his Master have seene first * and well understood by private communication with his brethren whether things were so or not according to the cry that came to his eares surely he should have convented his bretheren first and shewen them their personall failings whether so or not or such as they were reported to be whether they would own them and appeare in justification of them and then when it was made apparent that his brethren did not walke uprightly according to the Truth of the Gospel then he might also have appeared against them as he hath done and done all according to rule whereas now omitting this Christian duty of conferring with his brethren first he hath transgressed his rule and hath done all he hath done neither decently nor in order A. His brethren had the very same obligation upon them to have dealth with Mr Edw first and with the Assembly of Divines before they put forth their Apol Nar. B. I take it under correction No no reason imaginable why they should apply themselves to M. Edw They tooke the way was prescribed unto them by the Assembly of Divines they applied themselves to the learned and judicious Licencer of Books M. Herle who they knew had appeared for the other way of Church Governement but in a most orderly way that Truths might be beaten-out and cleered and the bands of the brother-hood kept intire and sacred To him they applied themselves for his judgement upon their Apologie first before they put it forth which what it was appeareth now as visible as the Apologie doth and is a reall and full justification of the Apologists proceeding touching that matter That they did as much as the Assembly of Divines could expect they should doe Secondly I humbly conceive that they stood bound to give satisfaction by way of Apologie to all especially to such simple ones as my selfe all over the Land we judged nothing before the time but indeed we were offended to see so many pillars shrink away from our house ready to fall upon our heads Indeed we did expect and 〈◊〉 in manners we could have so done we would have required an Apologie for their so departing from us in such perilous times But we had it without asking we thanke them the fullest and clearest that ever was penned I thinke as for other matters of an higher debate M. Edw might have left them with his betters to whose consideration and judgement they were modestly transmitted Hitherto I have set downe as I have conceived M. Ed. his faults of omission His faults of Commission are greater he is sharpe harsh and bitter towards them who were sweet gentle and meek towards all as Ambassadours for peace and lovers of Truth ought to be But suppose there had been some harshnesse or tartnesse in the Ap. Narr and that it had some speciall reference to M. E. himselfe suppose so yet he having done as he hath done hath transgressed the Rule and gone contrary to the examples of all good men not transported with passions as he was in dealing with their brethren The Rule was set downe before and will be repeated afterwards I 'le shew here what others have done whose example is very imitable Erasmus had written a book to serve as a Buckler whereby to safeguard the Truth for it was called Erasmic {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Melanct Erasmus his good friend turnes over the book and sayes of