3 5 0 Generalldireaions for a Ila...semeomnsac haveunhappilybrought forth, by the midwifery of a kinde of fpirituall vvantonneffe ; be they never fo monflrous and miNbapen , yet fome giddy heads will hearken and hanker after them ; fo that many times manyweake , ungrounded, unflable young beginners in Profeffion,are limed, and woful- ly entangled,as we fee too often in ourchiefell Citie,whence enfues an incredible deale of prejudice, hurt andhinderance, even to thecommon (late of goodneffe ; to the honour and acceptation of Chriflianitie. For thereupon is raifed a cry in all conventidesofgoodfellow fhip,and confiftoriesofworld ly wifedome : That thefe forwardProfeffours will all mrne Phantafticall , Familifls , Anabaptifts , Arrians , any things Which cry awakes the eye of State- j::aloufie ; and fo byan unworthy confequent, drawes upon thole who are true of heart, evenGodsbeft fervants , and theKingsbell fubj difcotntenance, fufpicions, if not moleflations ; unneceffari- ly, caufek fly. For fo might yee roote up your Rofe-trees, becaufe a worme fometimes breeds in the fweetefl bud. So might yee extinguifh Monarchies from the face ofthe earth, becaufe they fometimesdegenerate into tyrannies. So might yee conceive ill of PeterAnd the roll of the Apofiles, becaufe Isecla groovednaught, &c. a. Sometimes he fufErs him to fall into fome groffe finne, in the faceof the World, and be- fore the watchfull eye of lcornefull enemies; the infamy and fcandall whereof,being once on wing,flees abroad as fwift as the Eagles of the Heavens , over a whole Countrey, , over a Kingdome ; the Dive's and their drunken trumpeters are fpeedy Dromedaries to carry fuchnewes and this concur- rentcry redounds from all places with much wicked triumph and infultation rope sowwhat thefe proffers are One fo famous for his forwardnefre, is fame into fuch a groffe finne, and fonotorioufly They are eves al alike, &e. Which by accident, and in the event redounds toooften , to the inex- piable difgrace ofour holy profeffion,the arengthning ofthe flubborne, the flaggering ofthe{hong, the ftuutingof thole which arc comming on , the hindering of the weake , the hardeningof thewicked, the chaining of the (comer, farre fafter
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