TITLES OF THE APOLOGY FOR AUTHORIZED AND SET Of Heresy, and the Nature of it; and that it is to be accounted according to the strict Capacity of Christian Faith, and not in GENERAL DEDICATION TO THE POLEMICAL DISCOURSES. ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONOURABLE AND TRULY NOBLE CHRISTOPHER LORD HATTON, BARON HATTON OF KIRBY, PRIVY COUNSELLOR AND COMPTROLLER OF THE HOUSEHOLD TO AND KNIGHT OF THE HONOURABLE ORDER OF THE BATH. MY LORD, WHEN we make books and publish them, and by dedications implore the patronage of some worthy person, I find by experience that we cannot acquire that end, which is pretended to by such addresses: for neither friendship nor power, interest or favour, can give those defences to a book, which it needs: because the evil fortune of books comes from causes discernible indeed, but irremediable; and the breath of the people is like the voice of an exterminating angel, not so killing but so secret. But that is not all; it is also as contingent as the smiles of an |