irDe poohMend JFamitpZook. I I9 efcape all their fufferings ? If they durfl; but once lie un. der their hands, and fay that they iffient and curfent to what they do not, theymight be as free as others. "El. There are as many villanies committed fecretly cc among you, as among others. Our faults are open and known to all ; but you are as bad in Corners, as 66 demurely as you carry it. Did you not hear lately of " a great Profeffor near you that was drunk, and ano- "they that got his Servant-maid with Child ? This is " your profeflion. if the truth might be known , on "my Confcience you are all alike. P. Your (l) own tongue fill confuteth you and ho- noureth thofe whom you would fain reproach. If you fin openly, it feemeth you are not afhamed of it ; you tell us that it is nowonder among you : as if it were your profeflion. If we fin fecretly, how do you know it ? Your naming one or two defamations, implyeth that with fuch as you mean, it is a rarity and ftrange thing. And flanders are fo common againfl inch perfons, that when it is examined, it is two to one but it proves falte. But if it be true, either the As you mention are mar- vels , committed by one of a hundred, once perhaps in all their life-time fence their change ; or elfe they are fuch as you defcribe that live fecretly in filch fin. if it be the later, they are Hypocrites and fuch as we call t3 Repentance and Converfion , as being in the gall of bitternefs and bond of iniquity : And all that I defire of you and your Tenant here is, that you will not be fuch. If you like fuch,why do you blame them ? If you dill i e them why will you be fuch your (elves ? If you fay that you make no profeffion of Religion, Ianfweragain a (1) Ifa.?.9. Yer.6.I,5. d- 8. I2. I 4 LI , l: ís
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