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 I58 A P'P E N D I X. mutt exTeS: to undergo an equal {hareof that obloquy and ill-will, which have contt:mtlv attended him in the workof Refor_rnation efpeciay iince you hare guard- el )'our performance, in fo cautious a manner, with went profeffions of deferece to thot to whom you a[.eal; have ufherecl in your corn laints with the P . . humblel fubmt's, and/'oftned all your mveive vkh ingenious falvo'$ and fham-fip Oions. . i 0 It mull be conferfen, indeed, that our manner of writing is romewhat different occalioned by our different tintions, charac"ters, and profdtions: You, like the inimitable Horace, touch the wound but gently, and play with your patient5 whilft I, like rougher )rrvenat tear off the plailler at once:, and diti:over the ulcer in all its malignity. But though you have wrapp*d up your complaints (which, perhaps, our enemies will call malice) i, deane finhen than I was able to do, and difgui�ed your intention with more artifice and fine s yet ot:r writings both undoubtsdly am at the tame mark, and therefore will equ.Ily rouze up the refentments of thofi, againft whom they are levelI'd; nay, you mutt xather expecq: a hrger portion of calumny and reproach, fince you have tickled them in a much more elegant manner, and adorned almol!every fircalm with the moll beautiful flowers of Rhetoricle and Poetry. Nay betides this, the ftIperiority of your charac- ter as it willhave much greater influence than mine, and gi'e a relit to what I have before fiid upon tie lime fubjeOa, fo it will infallibly inhance your crime, and their indignation. Since therefore, you ha,,,e condefcended fo far as to lill yourfell my contl, and have not difdained to tread in tie path which I thnlked out for you5 iet me conj,.tre you. for the fake of our common caut, to Ferfcvere with conflancy and thriftinn courage in this glorious warfare, in defpite of all the clamours and oF?refiion of our enemies. lndeed

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