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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