The PREFACE.

reason of their Institution, in reference toChrist.

But to leave that, I have in this Edition re-moved one subject of Apology,and added ano-ther, so that there still remain as many thingsto be excused or pleaded for. They are,

First, Writing so much; for which someperchance may censure me, I am not igno-rant, that Men as they are mutable, so theylove change, and affect variety of Authors aswell as Books. Satiety even of the best thingsis apt to creep upon us. He that writes much,let him write never 16 well, lliall experience,that his last Books, though nothing inferiourto his first, will not find equal acceptance. Butfor mir.e own part, tho in general I may bethought to have written too much, yet is itbut little that I have written relating to Di-vinity. It were a good Rule to be observedboth by Writer and Reader, Not how much,hut how well. He that cannot write well, hadbetter spare his Pains, and nor write at all.Neither is he to be thought to write well,whothough he hath some good things thin set anddilperled, ye t encumbers and accloys the Rea-der with a deal of useless and impertinentstulf. On the contrary, he that writes well,cannot wrte too much For as Pliny theyounger se',th well, ?Jt ah re home res , it a bo-nus Liber eo melior eft quijqi quo major •’ As

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