Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: T. C. THE AUTHOR TO THE READER. I am humbly to crave at thy hand, gentle reader, that thou wouldest Hedesireth vouchsafe diligently and carefully to compare Master Doctor's Answer, M much a and my Reply; both that thou mayest the better understand the truth of the hfmMt a 'hath cause, and that the untempered speeches of him (especially that whippeth other so sharply for them) which I have in a manner altogether passed by, and his loose conclusions, which I have (to avoid tediousness) not so fully pursued, may the better appear; which thing as I crave to be done through the whole book, so chiefly I desire it may be done in the beginning, where the reader shall not be able so well to understand what is said of me, unless he have M. D. book before him. The cause of which diver- vain and tity rose of that, that I first purposed to set down his Answer before excm why my Reply, as he did the Admonition before his Answer: but afterward, tet down flic considering that (his book being already in the hands of men) it would be tlie'A double charges to buy it again; and especially weighing with myself that, Uon- through the slowness of the print for want of help, the Reply by that means should come forth later than was convenient (for, although he might commodiously bring in the Admonition, being short, yet the same could not be done in his book, swelling in that sort which it doth); I say, these things considered, I changed my mind, and have therefore set down the causes which moved me so to do, because I know that those, if any be, which have determined to continue their fore-judged opinions against the cause, whatsoever be alleged, will hereupon take occasion to surmise that I have left out his Answer, to the end that it might the less appear wherein I have passed over any weigh...