i A Prefacet;to the Reader. ' moft confiderable he hath borrowed from the jefuites (who agree with him in under - valuing the Covenant made with our fathers, and calling Infants out of Covenant ) which have been anfwered over and over (before Mr. Tombes e- ver entered the lifts; yea,before he drew breath,) by their adverfaries; Doctor Featley having traced Mr. Mountague, through Arminius, and Bertius, ding the feif- fame autho- rities,Scriptures,reafons,fathers,and for the molt part in the fame words with them applies to him an Epigram of Sir Thomas Moores made upon one whom he names Gallus, and whom he had traced through the ancient Poets, Vatibus idem animúfque & veré f iritas idem Zvi fuit antiquis, eft mob, Galle,tibi. Carmina námque eadem, verfufque frequenter eofdem uos f ecére illi, to quoque, Galle, fads. I may apply the fame with as good reafon to Mr. Tombes, that he bath the fpirit of the late fefuites,whether by way of calumny or truth, let that which bath been Paid in my An- fwer to his letter,and what Cod willing (hall be faid,demon- ftrate. It is great pity he Mould take all this pains and tra- vell with fuch big expectations of reformation in this bufi- neffe, and no man undeceive him, in letting him know that he is not a man for this work, never like to be the leading man of any fuch Sea, or fpreading faction ; He wants a rol- ling glib tongue, to carry it out in a fmooth taking way, to Work on the fancies of the ignorant multitude: One Haggar, one Collyer, &c. or any of their pitch (as oppofite to him in other things,as all are to the truth) in this will have three for one to glory in, efpecially having the countenance of men in military command: Some that they may be lifted as foul- diers,others that they maybe employed as Laundreffes, &c. are contented to be lifted among dipped Saints, when that wafhing(with fame high invectives again ft theLords day,the order and fubfiftence of the Miniftery) is all that appears in -- them
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