/ \ , - The Saints is craftily and cruelly practifed by the endofing and oppre!fing Giants ofour times:, they doe nor knocke them downe in the fireet. and ftrike them ,-dead as they meet them, thatwerefarre more tol– lerable and mercifull, aqd there were law againfr .them. But by racking their rente;-above reafon, or rai– fing theit fines beyond meafure, or wearying_ them by one tricke or other, o~tofthtir ancient poffef– Gons, they wring their penfive fouies from their hunger-H:arved bodies. N4botb died more happily and eafily than the oppreffed and enclofed ofour times~ whiCh is a ·,kinde of.dearh, as farre more cruell and tormenting than.rhe former_, as hanging in chainesalive~ thanbeheading~ Who would nor hate and abominate with the highefi 11raine of in– dignation, rhatb1oudy tyrant which fhould torture .an innocent man, upon fome engine of vexation, with a 1ingririg torment, onely upon purpofe to · ·make his paines"more painfull, and fhould onely 1 adde life unto hisdearh,that he might die moredi– fireffedly ? And yet in effect many .cmell Land– Lords deale thus with honefi meJ l, though not for thirfi: of bloud, yet for greedin'dfeof gold. · _ If the times then bee fuch, I _had infinitely, ' anda thoufand times rather be a Prooor eo plead for the poore, than once to open, my mouth .ag_ain!hhem.And therefore wharfoever I have de– r livered in the former point_, wasonly to meet with a fa1fe opi_qion, ~nd .' common errour of men, whoever when they heareofcharity,faith, work1 ing ·by love and good workes, conceive there1. / by .
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