89 Rut alas phis quarrelforne ditternper in Mini- Ifers, path had filch pernicious eff'e6ts up62 the Church; and is Rill going on to More confu(ìon4 that it deftveth and calleth for our-common la- mentation. And if we múíí lament it with de- fpair, as an uncurable difeafe, I fear wemutt with equal defpair lament the Churches ,ru nes, and the confumprionof Ref ioion. For hoer. -can we ex- peel that the people ílao iid hear , if the Paftors be obdurate and remedilefs? And who íhall cure them, if their Phyficians themfelves be they that do infeet therm ? I fpeak not againft the neceffary defence of `Truth, fo be it that it be truth indeed -which we defend, and that the defence be indeed necefoy and that the mwnner be fuited to the 'endi and to the nature and rule of Chriftianity; B6tt the itch which caufed the Churches fcab , is of a different defcription. For fi, .ft, it proceedeth from a fait acrir onicus humour in the blood : Not that there is rid blood in our veirs which bath better prin.i cipies and qualities : But alas it is tainted with this corroding fait, Which bath bred cur lcprofie As if Chrifi had made us the fait of the earth, riot to preferve the world from putrefaction , but to bite and fret all that We have any thing to dowith ( yea and chafe that we have nothing to do with). and by the fait Catarrhs of cur back- bitirgs an.d eeviih cenfures and reproaches; to bring the, Church of Chrift into a confumption. There many of us a love and zeal for Truth n the general (and no wonder ifwe are but men.) But when we meet it we know it not; but revile it, and fcratch it by the face As the Jews did long F.f foN
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