A second part of The mixture of scholasticall divinity, with practical, in several tractates: wherein some of the most difficult knots in divinity are untyed, many dark places of Scripture cleared, sundry heresies and errors refuted ... Whereunto are annexed, several letters of the same author, and Dr. Jeremy Taylor, concerning Original Sin. Together with a reply unto Dr. Hammonds vindication of his grounds of uniformity from 1 Cor. 14.40. By Henry Jeanes, minister of Gods Word at Chedzoy in Somersetshire.

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To the unprejudiced Reader.

I shall only give thee a briefe narrative of the occasion of the ensuing letters: one M^r T. C. of Bridgwater being at my house, brake out into extraordinary, (that I say not excessive, and Hyperbolicall) prayses of D^r Ie∣remy Taylor; I expressed my concurrence with him in great part; nay I came nothing behind him in the just cōmendations of his admirable wit, great parts, quick and elegant pen, his abilites in Criticall learning, and his profound skil in antiquity: but notwithstanding all this I professed my dissent from some of his opinions which I judged to be erroneous; and I instanced in his doctrine of originall sin; now his further explication of this lay then causually in the window (as I take it) which hereupon I took up, and turned unto the passage now under debate, and shewed unto M^r T. C. that therein was grosse nonsense, and blasphemy; he for his own part, with a great deale of modesty, forthwith declined all further dispute of the businesse, but withal he told me, that he would, If I so pleased, give D^r Tay∣lor notice of what I said; whereunto I agreed, and in a short time he brought me from the D^r a faire, and civill invitation to send him my exceptions, and with it a promise of a candid reception of them; whereupon I drew them up in a letter unto Mr T. C. the Copy where∣of followeth.