DEDI CATORlii.. owne Coat; to a fufpicion of difloyaltie, fot• crofling fo peremptorily the King~ Plot~. to fi11iting, both Wlth the fill: of wKkedndfe, and taunts of the tongue, fi-pm His fellow seers : Nay, though His faithfull dealing thro'v Him into a Dungeon, there to bt;.e fed with the Bread of affiicrion, and Water of affiietion ) untill the full wrath of .an enraged prophane King fall upon Him to the uttermofi:.. Thus, let the World fay what it will, whatever fl.eili and blqud fuggefi t'o the contrarie ; Howfoever unfanttified great Ones fiorme and difdain.e ; yet affuredly, every true Friend to iefos Chriff, mull: bee content farre rather to be difcourted, then defert agood caufe ; or not to defend the innocency ofagracious Man,- though in difgrace ; and to fpeake for Go P s people, though l(aman rage to root them out quite , as a company of fingular exorbitant fellowes, who ferve GoD as they lift, and . keepe not the I<ings Lawes : As is unanfwerably . Hdt 3· s. evident, by the precedencie o£ thefe newly named, Noble, and holy Saints. I confdfe,. this may f~eine precife Doetrine, and a divine ' Paradoxe tb all the great Mafiers of pleafure, and Minions of lpxury and pride; whofe bloud runnes fi'dh in their Veines, and marrow .is yet firong in their b0nes ; Nay, .who having attained the height of their ambitious aymes, f\t ·now alof! in the very top of thei.r unbleffed braverie and o-reatneffe, drunke with the pleafant Wine ofworldly profperitie, I ~
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