of Arithmetic, provided the fractions l)e carefully observed. Many others, nay by far the greater number, laying aside the labour of investigation, proceed with greater ease and celerity, and fancy that they are riding in port, when in reality they are at sea with their eyes shut. Let them consider well what they are about ; Truth is of too noble a nature to force herself upon the notice of mankind. I have nothing new to say on her be half. I still employ this defence ; Pray, place the Holy Scrip ture before you on the desk of your heart, and acquaint yourself with the WHOLE matter, before you arrive at a decision. " Happy is he, that speaketh in the ears of them, that will hear." — Eccle- siasticus xxv. 9.
No one has as yet called my orthodoxy in question. Who ever has examined my writings, must acknowledge that I have followed Scripture, not only in doctrines, but even in words, with a religious exactness, which even to good men seems scarcely removed from superstition. For I consider, that no aberration from the line of Truth laid down in Scripture, however slight, is so unimportant, but that the full and simple recognition of the Truth, corresponding with the knowledge of God, expressed according to His direction, and agreeable to His glory, is to be preferred to it. — Truth is one; [incapable of diminution, or division] and consistent with itself in its greatest, and in its least parts. It is the reader's duty, therefore, to think well of me, until I am proved guilty of error by some one \vho does not err himself in accusing me. It too frequently happens, that one man attributes to another a pernicious opinion, which both equally -abhor, and thus by a short and hasty assertion places a stumbling-block in the way of a thousand others. What I con sider the reader's duty, what my own, in such a case, I have declared in sect. xiii. of the preface to my German Exposition of the Apocalypse.