What if, as you suggest, the sober Dr. Owen, though he told me and
others, at first, he would write an epistle to my book, ("Peaceable
Principles and True,") yet waved it afterwards; this was also to my
advantage; because it was the earnest solicitations of several of
you that at that time stopped his hand: and perhaps it was more for
the glory of God that truth should, go naked into the world, than as
seconded by so mighty an armor-bearer as he.