_Or be angry with his judgement for not agreeing with me in that, from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent my self._] I cannot think but in this expression the Author had respect to that of that excellent French Writer _Monsieur Mountaign_ (in whom I often trace him). _Combien diversement jugeons nous de choses? Combien de fois changeons nous nos fantasies? Ce que je tien aujourdhuy, ce que je croy, je le tien et le croy de toute ma Creance, mais ne m'est il pas advenu non une fois mais cent, mais mille et tous les jours d'avoir embrasse quelque autre chose?_ Mountaign lib. 2. _Des Essais._ Chap. 12. _Every man is not a proper Champion for truth_, etc.] A good cause is never betray'd more than when it is prosecuted with much eagerness, and but little sufficiency; and therefore _Zuinglius_, though he were of _Carolostadius_ his opinion in the point of the Sacrament of the _Eucharist_ against _Luther_, yet he blamed him for undertaking the defence of that cause against _Luther_, not judging him able enough for the encounter: _Non satis habet humerorum_, saith he of _Carolostad_, alluding to that of _Horace_, _Sumite materiam vestris qui scribitis æquam Viribus, et versate diu quid ferre recusent Quid valeant humeri_.----So _Minutius Fælix; Plerumq; pro disserentium viribus, et eloquentiæ potestate, etiam perspicuæ veritatis conditio mutetur_. Minut. in Octav. And _Lactantius_ saith, this truth is verified in _Minutius_ himself: for _Him_, _Tertullian_ and _Cyprian_, he spares not to blame (all of them) as if they had not with dexterity enough defended the Christian cause against the _Ethniques_. _Lactant. de justitia_, cap. 1. I could wish that those that succeeded him had not as much cause of complaint against him: surely he is noted to have many errors _contra fidem_. _Pag. 13._ _In Philosophy----there is no man more Paradoxical then my self, but in Divinity I love to keep the Road_, etc.] Appositely to the mind of the Author, saith the Publisher of Mr. _Pembel's_ Book _de origine formarum_, _Certe_ (saith he) _in locis Theologicis ne quid detrimenti capiat vel Pax. vel Veritas Christi----à novarum opinionum pruritu prorsus abstinendum puto, usq; adeo ut ad certam regulam etiam loqui debeamus, quod pie et prudenter monet Augustinus_ (_de Civ. Dei._ 1. 10, cap. 23.) [_ne verborum licentia impia vi gignat opinionem_,] _at in pulvere Scholastico ubi in nullius verba, juramus, et in utramvis partem sine dispendio vel pacis, vel salutis ire liceat, major conceditur cum sentiendi tum loquendi libertas_, etc. Capel. _in Ep. Dedicat._ _Pembel_, _de origin form. præfix_.