The Conclusion.
AND thus by the Blessing of God, and the Ad∣vantage of a good Cause, have I very briefly passed through this Author's Reflections, and I am perswaded sufficiently shewn the weakness and falsity of the most of them. If any one shall think that I ought to have insisted more largely upon some Points, he may please to know, that since by the importunate Provocations of those of the other Communion, we have been forced too often to interrupt those Duties of our Ministry, in which we could rather have wish'd to have employ'd our Time, for these kind of Contro∣versies which serve so very little to any purposes, either of true Piety, or true Charity among us: We have resolved thus far at least to gratify both our selves and others, as to make our Disputes as short as is possible; and loose no more time in them, than the necessary Defence of our selves and the Truth do require.
I have indeed pass'd by much of our Author's Dis∣courses, because they are almost intirely made up of te∣dious and endless Repetitions of the same things, and ve∣ry often in the same words. But for any thing that is Ar∣gumentative, or otherwise material to the main Cause, I do not know that I have either let the Observation of it slip, or dissembled at all the Force of it.
It was once in my thoughts to have made some Re∣flections in the Close upon the Changes of their Ritu∣als, in requital for our Author's Observations on the Alterations of our Liturgie; but I have insisted longer