Importunity hath drawn me to say thus much more than I
could think needful to be said concerning any work of Dr Owen’s; — needful in our day itself, a day wherein “pauci sacras Scripturas, plures nomina rerum,
plurimi nomina magistrorum sequuntur;” — “few do cleave to the holy
Scriptures; many do rest in scholastic senseless sounds; and most men do
hang their faith upon their rabbi’s sleeves.”