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English

Now we are not sure that we are arrived at the end of this progression, and at the perfection of spiritual or theological knowledge; and we fear that, if we should once print our confession of faith, we should feel ourselves as if bound and confin'd by it, and perhaps be unwilling to receive farther improvement, and our successors still more so, as conceiving what we their elders and founders had done, to be something sacred, never to be departed from."

Chinese

但是我们不敢断定我们的进步已经登峰造极,我们心灵的或神学的知识已经尽善尽美。 我们怕假如一旦我们把我们的信条公布的话,我们会觉得受它的约束和限制,可能会使我们不愿意再加以改进,而我们的子孙将会更加如此,因为他们认为他们的长辈和创立人的遗训是神圣不可侵犯的,是应当信守不渝的 。 "