The works of ..vindicating the church of England, as truly christian, and duly reformed: in eight books of ecclesiastical polityNow compleated, as with the sixth and eighth, so with the seventh, (touching episcopacy, as the primitive, catholick and apostolick government of the church) out of his own manuscripts, never before publishedWith an account of his holy life, and happy death . or his care, then mif-liked for his Errour: So I have judged it myown part in this, as much as in me licth, to take away all fufpicion c? any un-friendly intent or meaning againft the Truth, from which, ®od doth
The works of ..vindicating the church of England, as truly christian, and duly reformed: in eight books of ecclesiastical polityNow compleated, as with the sixth and eighth, so with the seventh, (touching episcopacy, as the primitive, catholick and apostolick government of the church) out of his own manuscripts, never before publishedWith an account of his holy life, and happy death . or his care, then mif-liked for his Errour: So I have judged it myown part in this, as much as in me licth, to take away all fufpicion c? any un-friendly intent or meaning againft the Truth, from which, ®od doth know , myheart is free. 40. Now to you. Beloved, which have heard ihefe things, I will ufc tio otherwords of admonition, then thofe which are offered me by S. James^AIy Bretbrerti havenot the faith of our glorious l^ord Jtfw in refpedofperfons. Yeafcnot nowtolcarnthatasof it felf it is not hurtful, fo neither fhould it be to anyfcandalous aadoffen-fivein doubtful cafes, to hear the different judgements of men. Beit that Cephashath one interpretation^ and ^/oI/m hath another; that Faul is of this minde, thacEarnabs of that; if this offend you, the fault is yours. Carry peaceable mindes,and you may have comfort by this variety. Notv the Ood of Place give you peaceable mindes, and turn it to yourtverlajhng camfort. Hi A •: i66 A Learned S E R M O OF THE Nature of Pride. N. HABAK. Minde fmlUth, and is not right in himiBnt the JhJI by his faith Jhall livt. H E nature of man being much more delighted to be led thendrawHjdoth many times ftubbornly reiift Authority, when topcrfwafion it eaiily yieldeth. Whereupon the \r\le& W&w-makers have endeavoured always, that thofe Laws mightfeemmoft reafonable, which they would have moll inviolablykept. A Law fimply commanding or forbidding, is but dead incomparifon of that which exprefleth the reafon wherefore itdoth the one or the other. And furely, even in the Laws ofGod, although that he hath given Commandment be in itfelf a r
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