256 Mr. NE AL 's IP Vol. of the the Devil the Application. In a word, I believe hint fill tb -it grand Apofate to the Commonwealth, who Inuit net expert to be pardoned in this World, till he befeet to the next. The following Paragraphs he has kept out of view, (for what Reafon, he belt knows.) And they plainly difprove the Treafon. * ' And yet let me tell you, Mailer Speaker, my Hand muff not be to that Difpatch : I proteft, as my Confcience Elands informed, I would rather ' it were off. Let me unfold unto you the Myfte- ry, Mailer Speaker : 1 will not dwell much upon ' juftifying unto you, my feet-fling Variance at this time, from what I was formerly, by putting you ' in mind of the difference between Profecutors, and Judges : How misbecoming that Fervour would be in a Judge, which was perhaps corn- ' mendable in a Profecutor. Judges we are tow, ' and muff put on another Perfonage. It is honeft and noble to be earneft in the difco- ' very of Truth, but when that has been brought ' as far as it can to light, our Judgment thereupon ought to be cairn and cautious. In Profecutoon uponprobable Grounds, we are accountable only ' for our Induftry or Remiffnets ; but in Judg- ' ment,we are deeply refponlble to God Almighty for its Re&itude, or Obliquity. In Cafes of Life, the judge is God's Steward of the Party's ' Blood, and muff give a ftri& Account for every ' Drop. But as I told you, Mailer Speaker, I will not inilI long upon this Ground of Difference in me now, from what I was formerly. The truth on't is, Sir, the fame Ground, whereupon I, (with the relt ofthe Five, to whom you committed the Conliderátion.ofthe LordStraford)brought down our Opinion, that it was fit he fhould be accus'd * Speeches and Pa±Tages of this great and happy Parliament, riG, &c. Rtifinvorth, Vol. IV. p. z.
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