and receiving what was spoken only according to its own intrinsic value. 9. I cannot flatter myself so far (to use the words of one of the above named writers) as to imagine that I have fallen into no mistakes in a work of so great difficulty. But my own conscience acquits me of having designedly misrepresented any single passage of Scripture, or of having written one line with a purpose of inflaming the hearts of Christians against each other. God forbid that I should make the words of the most