James Durham cites the below without noting who the learned man was or the book with the preface. It's a needle in a haystack but maybe someone has read something and knows. I get little searching Google or EEBO TCP. Ideas.
"For as the most learned preachings do not always edify most, so neither is it in writing. And though, as a learned man observes in a preface, that which is accurate edifies most intensively and best explains the thing...." {Durham probably means, that which is accurate and best explains the thing edifies most intensively}.
"For as the most learned preachings do not always edify most, so neither is it in writing. And though, as a learned man observes in a preface, that which is accurate edifies most intensively and best explains the thing...." {Durham probably means, that which is accurate and best explains the thing edifies most intensively}.