r40 Conrail diva-liensfors ever to fuffer our conceits and cenfures to be carried the more charitable way. 3. By adding unto the truth , or detra6ing from it, or intermixing fade adulterate Glodes, or fore im- pertinent Parenthefs ofamans owne. Childs fallè accafers weredeepely and damnably faulty this way. Arid in this kind, many, who are their Crafts-mailers, as they lay, in -malice, will firfl ofall give good men in their abftnce their inimi- Penmum due and deferved attributions, with many magnificent and eorumgenus,lau- plaufible fpeeches ; but afterward at the doze, premifing d ttes.T4.04,m,- forre formall counterfeit protellation and Pharifaicall Pre- ...4,0,./4 P face, as, I amveryferry to !mare it : I wouldit were otherwife, e men are come inwitha Nut, fleept in thevery gall andvineger,wbich jraifedme[ici° fry bites moft bitterly and cuts like the fharpeRrazour. As thus : to their hurt tber- iy to flirre envie Amanof very good parts, great worth, extraordinary en- and deal°+tfie t.- dowments; But fotnethirrg proud. He is one,that is very wel *welt them. reformedoflate, ofmuchknowledge, and growne marvel- loufly forward in Religion ; But a littlecovetous. And thus they fpeake,not out ofany love unto the party, impartialitie of cenfure, or that the imputation is true : but out of a dunning tricke, to bring their owne credit to their ovine doore; a perverfe humour of meafuring another by their owne foote; an envious impatiencie of being furpaffed in any fufficieneies; or rather then all this, from a bafe,an irre- guiar and dunghill delire of having the hell men, efpecially every forward Profeffour, branded with one notorious Bat or another. For hypocrites , and enemies to Gods grace, would, rather then their lives, have the lives ofall Gods peo- ple Rained with fome grolle linne. Rather then fade, they will fallen apon himmany a lewd dander that way , ham- mered onely upon the forge of falfhood, and by themid- wiferyofmalice in their owne crafty pares, or broachedup- onan Ale- bench, or firatcht from the diflempered tongue of fomepedlingTell -tale, whencethey may fupply themfelves with imaginary matter, bothof infolencie, and triumph a- gainftforwardneffe and zeale, and alfonourifh a Pharifaicall perfwafion, that howfoever there may bee a profedion, and fhewes to the contrary, yet others are fo corrupt and cenfu-
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