¡ A Preface to the Reader. and Rulers beleeved in him, or fidedwith him,òhn 7.48. A poor man may lave a City, and never the lefie his wif dome defpifed, Eccicf. 9.16. fometimes becaufe they are . not men of our interefts that hold it, they make not up a party for us. The more conliderable the interefl is, the greater the hazard ( in thefe cafes) truth runs. Paul being brought before a Councel Ars 23. had not a man ofwhom we can read for him, but all againít him, for this reafon, becaufe it did not appear that his opinions` ferved any of their Intereíls ; when he obferved this, and, i law their Interefls divided, and that his adverfaries made two parties, he declares himfelf to be for the Intereft of the one a.gainft the other , and in point of the Refurre6ii- on to be for the Pharifees againff the Sadduces, bred up' in that way,a.nd fo perfifted ; hereupon having riot a friend I before, now he hath many : There arofe agreat cry; and the Scribes that were of the Pharifees part arofe, and firove, fizy- ing, We linde no fault in this man, but if fpirit, or an An- gel bath f poken to him, let us not fight again", God, Verf. 9.. now and not before he mull be heard. Upon the fame terms' that truth is call off, error is received and taken in, no -' thing mull be gainfaid,that men of narne,and men of Inter -' eft will appear to own ; yea, relations, kindred , and afe- . 'ions this way gained,are mightily prevalent, to work into Fa ion and take up Tenents. As difeafes many times run' in -a blood; fo allo opinions where they take in a kindred, of-. ten very few efcape. Twenty Sermons,were Paul,yea je- fus Chrift in the Pulpit, would not fo take to fettle men in the truth, as one poor Letter, or temple fenleleffe three - pennie Pamphlet from the hand of a childe, a brother, or filler will work to draw into Error. I will not here un- dertake to determine who are meant by children in that- fpeech of our Saviour Chrifl, Matth.12.z7. It appears that. it fpake Tome relation, that drew affeions, and therefore whereas,
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