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 . injiituted. 15 Of laws pnfitive cjntained in Scripture; the mutability of certain of them , and the general ufe of Scripture. 16 A conclufion\!hervi7ig how all this behngeth to the caufe in quefiion. Ethat goeth
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 . injiituted. 15 Of laws pnfitive cjntained in Scripture; the mutability of certain of them , and the general ufe of Scripture. 16 A conclufion\!hervi7ig how all this behngeth to the caufe in quefiion. Ethat goeth about to perfwade a multitude, that they are not-ftic caufe offo well governed as ought to be, ftall never want atten- ..ynci. gihistive and favourable hearers-, becaufe they know the manifold vvhereunto every kind ot regiment is fubjeft ; but the c<ud(,fecret lets anddifticultles , which in areinnimerableandinevitabk,they have not ordinarily the judg-ment to conlider. id becaufefuch as openly reprove fuppo-^^ fed diforders ofllate are taken for principal friends to the com-mon oeniht 01 , and for men that carry fingular fr-edome of mind ??, under taisfair and plaiiible colour whatfoever they utter, pafTeth for good and cmrant. Thatwhich wantctli in the waight of theirfpeech, isfuppiyed by theaptnefsof mens minds M t4j. The firft Booi of 1^accept and believe it. Whereas oiitheother fide, if we maintaine things that are eltaDlilned, wehavenot onely toltrivewith a number of heavy prejudices deeplyrooted in tie hearts of men, who think that herein we ferve the time, and fpeak infavor of taepretent itat^jbecaufe thereby we either hold or feek preferment j buta!fo to bear fiicu exceptions as minds fo averted before-hand, ufiully take a^ainltthat which they are Ihovild be poured into them. Albeit therefore nuich oftiiat to fpeak in this prefent caufe , may feeni to a number perhaps tedious,perhaps obfcure, dark,and intri
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