Note 8 — A LETTER, &c. &c.

Reformation is good when reformation is wanting, but to be always reforming is no reformation at all: it is behaving like children, tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine. All errors of any moment have been purged off long ago by the care of our Reformers, and why are we then still reforming? Physic may be proper at certain seasons, but to pretend to live constantly upon it, instead of food, is the certain way to impair, and in a little time to destroy, the best and soundest constitution in the world. Remarks on Dr. Clarke’s Exposition, &c. by Waterland, (Works, vol. 5, p. 436.)