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of this disease to seize the point of it before they embraced that notion, all might be saved; but there is no reasonable hope of their doing that.

"The false notion of reasoning to which I allude take different forms.
In outward dress they are many.
In essence, they are not identical; but they all have one mode of confusion of thought in common.
I will state the notion in that form in which it is open [?as] little objection as possible other than that one confusion common to all forms and will show you the falsity of that.
Afterwards, I will just glance at some other forms, but once you see clearly what the confusion is, you will be armed against.

In its purity, the confusion of thought in question leads to the conclusion that there is no distinction of good