407 defender of lash end ft 4.h corrsptiona : One back- bitetb men as Pcelatifts and formaliffs ; another the Presbyterians; another the Independents; and another the Anabaptifts; and fay f iicb of one of frlch a fry, and ever with epithetes of re- proach : And when I tell them that the way to do them good , is to convince them of their er- rour to their faces , and not to talk of them be- hind their backs, they report me prefently to be a patron of the fete, becaufe I was a re- prover of their unchrillian vice. And many of them hiving not fo far digefled their Religion, as to fee the evidences of it in themfelves, are fain to take it upon truf} fromo- thers : And they choofe that party to cati this great truaupon. which they think to be mot+ ve- nerable. The Papiti choofeth for number and worldly pomp and order : The carnal Pelf- feeker choofeth the party, which may moft further his preferment and honour in the world : The ho- metier fe&aries do shook theparty , which fee- meth to them to be the molt illuminated or moli pria : And force have the wit, to look men at thofe, that fet as many of thofe together as may be hoped for. But among whomfoever they cati their lot, their way to preferve the reputarion of Orthodoxnefs, and the peace of that confcience which made the choice, is to be liberal in reproa- ching thofe that differ in any thing from the fea which they have chofen. ( For how much of the Chriitian world is now in fens, is a thing which requireth more lamentation , than proof.) As the Dominicans when they have written far much more than Calvin about fre:determinatio , they have
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