P. [69]. Animadversions: 'A. upon the Remonstrant's Defence against Smectymnuus.' 1641.
P. [69]. devised: described, represented.
P. [70]. conversation: in New Testament sense, mode or way of life, conduct, deportment (ἀναστροφή).
P. [70]. apology: defence, vindication.
P. [71]. propense: inclined, disposed.
P. [71]. that place: the University.
P. [71]. to obtain with me: prevail, succeed with me, to get the better of.
P. [71]. both she or her sister: Cambridge or Oxford University; 'both' requires 'and'; 'or' requires 'either.'
P. [71]. that suburb sink: the 'pretty garden-house in Aldersgate street,' as his nephew, Edward Phillips styles it, to which he removed from 'his lodgings in St. Bride's Churchyard,' in 1640, and where he was living when he wrote his 'Apology for Smectymnuus.'
P. [72]. I never greatly admired, so now much less: in 'The Reason of Church Government urged against Prelaty' ('The Conclusion. The mischief that Prelaty does in the State'), Milton writes: 'The service of God, who is truth, her (Prelaty's) liturgy confesses to be perfect freedom; but her works and her opinions declare that the service of prelaty is perfect slavery, and by consequence perfect falsehood. Which makes me wonder much that many of the gentry, studious men as I hear, should engage themselves to write and speak publicly in her defence; but that I believe their honest and ingenuous natures coming to the universities to store themselves with good and solid learning, and there unfortunately fed with nothing else but the scragged and thorny lectures of monkish and miserable sophistry, were sent home again with such a scholastic bur in their throats, as hath stopped and hindered all true and generous philosophy from entering, cracked their voices for ever with metaphysical gargarisms, and hath made them admire a sort of formal outside men prelatically addicted, whose unchastened and unwrought minds were never yet initiated or subdued under the true lore of religion or moral virtue, which two are the best and greatest points of learning; but either slightly trained up in a