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3 t thepeople, than angrily revile them : Ivind to think of Chrrfls words, Let him that is withoutfin cafl the firflflone, Al u, our preaching, our raying, our conference, our living, tell all the world too lord- ly that we are weak ! How few are there that be not either ignorant, or injudicious, or imprudent, or dull and livelefs, or dry and barren, or of a íläm- mering tongue, in our Miniflerial work? end in fo high a bufinefs, any one of there is a lothfome ble -. mifh. Ifwe are put to defend our Religion , or any neceffarypart thereof, howweakly and injudicioufly rs it ufasally done? In a word, Our great divifions a- mong ourfelves, with our cenfures and ufage of one another, do tell all the world not only that we are weak, but that too many of to account one another to be worfe than weak, even intollerable, and un- worthy of ourfacred office. e,4nd (ball we by our weaknefsand faultinefs become the peoplesfcandal, and tempt them to undue fepa.rations ; and when we have done be impatient with their weaknef, while we over- lookour own? Secondly, Let us kJ; impartial at to remember, howfarforce have fpoken to theirfenfe, who have been of moll veneration in the church. 1 inflance but its two : Firfl, The wife and ancient Britain, Gildas, whofaith no left, than, Apparet ergo eum qui vos facerdotes fciens ex corde dicit , non effe eximium Ghaiftianum : Sane quod fentio profe- ram. O inimici Dei & non facerdotes ! O lici- tatores malorum , & non` pontifices ! tradito- res, & note fanciorumApollalorum fucceffores impugnatores, & non Chrifli miníílri ! Sed quomodo vos aliquid folvetis, ut fit folutum & n çaelis, a ccelo ob fcelera adempti, unman um

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