that they have fpoken, and every Oppreflionof the poor, and every filthy or covetous thought that bath been in 'their hearts, they had needofa very Traditional Memo- ry to remember them, or great plenty of Ink and Paper to record them, and a whole Diocels of Clergy-men in one Parifh to hear them. Howmany hundred Priefts mutt this Parifhhave, if all Ihould thus confefs all fins of Commiflion andOmiflion ? every coldPrayer, and omit- ted Prayer, Exhortation, Alms, Example, d-c. elpecial. ly the great ()millions of theSoul, in the.defeas of the .exercifè of Faith, Hope, Love, and Patience, 6--c. 2. Andwhat good will it do a man, that is himfelf of found underftanding and integrity, to open his Confci- ence to an ignorant or unconfcionable man, that will call evil good, and good evil, and will put him upon fin ; as you here do by your Relations ; or that dare himlelf fin as boldly as you here do, whenyou accule Puritans and Prelates as holding weer Imputed Holinefs. 3. And how great a temptation and injury may this be to your Priefts, in fuch inftances as Montaltrtis the 'anfe- nist mentioneth, withwhich I will not defile my Paper?' -when,alas ! molt ofthem are not men fit to bear fuck tern - ptations : What if twenty thoufandPeople in one Parifh fhould each make this Confeífion to a Papift Prieft, [i am áfrvdIhave finned in believing the common Report, that you are a very ignorant drunken lot, and a common whore- mifler, and a proud, covetous, lying man ;] would it not be like to enrage the Prieft into an enmity againft his Flock ? If all theFornicators in Inch a Parifh Ihould tell such Priefts of all their filthy thoughts, and words, and their inamodefl cations, and acival Fornications, how like } were it to make fetch impreílions on the poor Priefts Phantafie, aswould pollute hires withmany filthy ima- ginations. . VI. You e
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