Baxter - BV649 B3 1670

Piny commen o )) Efpecially when good or evil is voted to them by that party wholepiety they mof} efleem and re* verence. Nor is this a Rsligioua diftemper only , but it i8 fo natural io mankind, that even in common m4ter: neighb auts and neighbours, mailers and fervants, has and and wife, and almoft all, have a firange diverfity of apprehenions : One thinks that tills is the bell way, and another that theother is heft; and let them reafon and wrangle it out never fo long, ufualiy each party .Hill holdeth hks owe, and hardly yieldeth to anothers reafons. And wnen they doyield , they are fo unhappy that they are as like toyield toone more erroneoass than themfelves, and to chance into a worfe opi- nion, as to yield to the truth. For commonly, Appearance, Advantage, fntereft, and a taking tone and voice, domore with them than folid eïidence oftruth. Out of all this if you infer a necetlìty of Go- vernment, fo do I. But ifa necetlìty of force and rigor, think on it again, and.firfl hear what I thall further fay And confider what I have fail al ready. Diflinguilh between the common frail- ties of mankind, andfpecial enormities And for* get not that you are men and live among men : And let not menbe call out for Originalfan; nor vanilla a few for that which h common to all the world ; Nor condemn not your feives in con others. Of which I further add : C .c 4 DIRCI°

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