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writers who are forced to make use of ama- 

 nuenses, if the transcribing a few passages for 

 the author's use, or the making a short abridge- 

 ment of a passage or two, shall be foundation 

 enough to set up a title for co-partnership in 

 the work. I hope after so many volumes of 

 church antiquity published by me long before 

 I saw Mr. Wharton's face, the world will not 

 have so mean an opinion of me, as to think 

 either that I needed to be beholden to a young 

 man of twenty-one years, and who, by his own 

 confession, had never looked into the Fathers till 

 he came to me ; or that I was so lazy as to sit 

 still, and employ another to do my work; a 

 thing as far from my temper, as light from 

 darkness, and from which all that know my 

 course of studying will sufficiently acquit me. 

 I might add, that there is so plain a difference 

 between his style and mine, (whether for good 

 or bad it matters not,) that it would not be 

 hard for any that would attend to it, to make a 

 near guess which is which ; though indeed in 

 the progress of the work, he was ever and anon 

 offering to thrust in his own words and phrases, 

 so that I was forced very often to reprimand 

 him, and sometimes positively to overrule him ; 

 whereof I then, once and again, complained to 

 several friends, some whereof are still alive to 

 justify it. This I then thought was only the 



