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Postscript.
WHatsoevr the exceptions be in particular, a∣gainst what I have done, I foresee one in the general, that may be taken, and must now be satisfied; and it is this: There are two Editions of this Catechisme: One in the year 1654, the other in the year 1656. What I have written is upon the former: whereas it might have seemed more ingenuous to have dealt with the lat∣ter, containing second thoughts, & some alteration. This is the objection. My Answer now followeth. It was the first Edition onely that was brought and put upon me, having not so much as heard of any second, untill I had welnigh gone thorow with the observations here tendred. Secondly, the first was published, and is extant, and in the hands of many, who will not be very ready, so long as they have one, to enquire after another of the second im∣pression. Thirdly, how far this allegation may be plead∣ed by him, who told us that which hath been noted once before,
There was nothing in the first Edition, but what might look his worst adversaries in the face,I leave to himself to be considered. And lastly, How little the alte∣ration is, & how the difference is not very material, espe∣cially as to the chief points of Heterodoxy, and how the Retractation none at all, I leave to others to be consider∣ed. For as when we have once acknowledged the Truth, and never so much as once denied it, there lieth no obli∣gation upon us, that we should at all times make confession of it: So an Errour or Errours once divulged and spread abroad, are not sufficiently recalled by silence and omis∣sion, but remain the Authours own, till something more be done, and it is well if then the danger ceaseth.