_J. D._ “Thus the coast being cleared, the next thing to be done, is to
draw out our forces against the enemy; and because they are divided into
two squadrons, the one of Christians, the other of heathen philosophers,
it will be best to dispose ours also into two bodies, the former drawn
from Scripture, the latter from reason.”
_T. H._ The next thing he doth, after the clearing of the coast, is the
dividing of his forces, as he calls them, into two squadrons, one of
places of Scripture, the other of reasons, which allegory he useth, I
suppose, because he addresses the discourse to your Lordship, who is a
military man. All that I have to say touching this, is, that I observe a
great part of those his forces do look and march another way, and some
of them do fight among themselves.
_J. D._ “If T. H. could divide my forces, and commit them together among
themselves, it were his only way to conquer them. But he will find that
those imaginary contradictions, which he thinks he hath espied in my
discourse, are but fancies, and my supposed impertinences will prove his
own real mistakings.”
In this fifth number there is nothing of his or mine, pertinent to the
question, therefore nothing necessary to be repeated.