Library of the Anti-Trinitarians

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to continue. I am indeed not unaware that no ordinary talent and judgment are required to expand the posthumous writings of others and to publish them in a polished form. But since this offspring original: foetus; a common literary metaphor for an author's work of that most illustrious man referring to the deceased author, Christopher Sandius has been known to me for a long time, and he himself often consulted with me about it, and indeed granted me full authority for emending original: emendandi; the process of correcting or improving a text it, I have approached this task all the more boldly. And just as I devoted my efforts to him while he was alive in correcting and expanding not a few things, I could by no means deny the same to him now that he is deceased, nor to his friends. Therefore, before you proceed to the reading of this book, kind reader original: lector benevole; a standard formal address to the reader in early modern prefaces, receive in a few words an explanation of the liberty we have taken in this edition original: editione; here referring to the act of preparing and publishing the text. I believed it would be worthwhile if I were to [include] any authors original: auctores of this kind I still knew of who had been omitted by our author, in...