honest reprints of such works as it selects for republication; leaving
it to its readers to compare what is written with "the law and the tes-
timony;" that test which it was the glory of the reformers to have
restored to its due authority. In the present instance, suppression
could not have consigned to oblivion what may be objectionable; for
the 'Practice of Prelates' was reprinted entire but a few years ago, in
the Rev. T. Russell edition of Tyndale's works: and respectable his-
torians would have been unjustly made liable to the suspicion of
being either culpably heedless, or dishonest, if a treatise to which they
have referred had been republished as correct, after the excision
of passages which they have quoted.]

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