(to preferve the hearers from errour and danger 4f they reviled that which they never underflood, it was toke p:theGhurch fçom tie infetion : If they tear the Church, and nfe their reputa ion to :murder= Love, and to make others odious who are wifer than:the.y, a!1 this is b'at for the de- fence of truth And if it. be nor, -fence or envy which theyvent,. they never repent of it (rhts the mifch;ef.) becattfe they think that the Lor4 and the Cbirch, and thehats-ers have need of it. And 4o all thefe Texts are to them flpocripha which ,condemn their fn. P¡al. r 5. 3. 2 Cor. 12. 20. ROM(' I.' 30. Prove 25. 23. And fin is fo frien- íed in mans corrupted nature, that they, meet but with fe Mv. angry countenances to drive 4w01y fuch reverend back-biting toxsgues. Nay that theymay abufe Gods wo"d and name, againft God, to the devils fervice, they arm ithemfelres _(as the Tempter did Math. 4. ,) with .Gods authority and fcrip.ure , and will . ;charge thofe with fin rti ho would reprove their fin, and bring them to repentance : And as Mafter Her- iert noteth, how the Pope under the reverend earl) of Chrifis Vicar, doth do the like things to the fuppreffing of the Church and Truth , Tcirks anc Heathens do under the name of pen enemies : fç. thefe men find that the names of Áliniffers 'and Chrifi4ns , u ith the words of God ,obrs cd, are among the well- meaning, a moreof ,fee`tual means to do that workwhich God abhor- reth. .hive tong ufed to refill this fn of back_ liting ; and (not toHlifie the faults ofany, but) to convince ire bac-liter of his fn, And I fer- flame do it, but they report of me that I am a defendtr
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