66 Life <9/ Mr. RAY. 
As to the Additions which Mr. 
Uay made to this, and indeed moft 
of his other Books, the chief Reafon 
was, becaufe his Hands were always 
full, and he uneafy till he had gone 
through his Talk; and withal being 
much advanced in Years, and much 
afflided with Pain and troublelbme 
Ulcers in his Legs, he chofe rather 
to put out his Things haftily in his 
Life-time, than venture them accord- 
ing to Horace s good Advice, 
In Metii defcendat judicis auresj 
Et patris, a noftras ; nonnmque premat ur in annum* 
Mepibranis intus pofitis, delere licebit, 
^lod non edideris : nefcit vox mijfa reverti. 
But for his farther Reafbns and Ex- 
Gufes for his Additions, I refer to the 
Prefaces of his two laft mentioned 
Books. 
Soon after thefe Theological Pieces 
were publifhed, the Synopfts Metho- 
dica 
