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Yea, you shall not only bring that curse upon your selves, that ^ethe Prophet denounceth against that man that doth the work of God negligently, that with▪holdeth his sword from shedding of blood when God calleth him thereunto: But, like ⟨p. 29⟩either fearful or unfaithful Physicians, who by sparing an ounce or two of corrupt blood, that were better out then in, infect and taint all the rest, and so endanger the whole body; ^pyou shall bring upon your selves the guilt of all such villainies as such desperate wretches shall by your preposterous and ^qpernicious lenity and impunity either survive or ^rbe encouraged to commit; yea and the wrath of God at length also upon the whole state, which by such means you shall cause to be totally defiled therewith. For ^sthe whole land, saith the Holy Ghost, is polluted with blood, and with the like enormous crimes, and cannot be purged again but by the blood of those that shed blood, and by the condigne punishment of such as commit such crimes.

Yea, you shall not onely bring that curse vpon your selues, that ^ethe Prophet denounceth against that man that doth the worke of God negligently, that with▪holdeth his sword from shedding of bloud when God calleth him thereunto: But, like ⟨p. 29⟩either fearefull or vnfaithfull Physitians, who by sparing an ounce or two of corrupt bloud, that were better out then in, infect and taint all the rest, and so endanger the whole body; ^p