Digital Donne: the Online Variorum

click image to return to main page
Previous image Next image The 1654 Prose Letters  Letter 34 (p.100)




To my very true and very good friend
Sir Henry Goodere.

sir,
At some later reading, I was more af-
fected with that part of your Letter,
which is of the book, and the namelesse
Letters, then at first. I am not sorry, for
that affection were for a jealousie or suspici-
on of a flexibilty in you. But I am angry,
that any should think, you had in your Re-
ligion peccant humours, defective, or
abundant, or that such a booke, (if
I mistake it not) should be able to work
upon you; my comfort is, that their judg-
ment is too weak to endanger you, since
by this is confesses, that it mistakes you, in
thinking you irresolved or various: yet let
me be bold to fear, that that sound true opi-
nion, that in all Christian professions there
is way to salvation (which I think you
think) may have been so incommodiously
or intempestively sometimes uttered by
you; or else your having friends equally
[CW: near]
p.100

Comments and questions about this page to mclawhornt@ecu.edu