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§ 10. For my self, I was at first the rather induced to deliver my judgement in the point the more largely (having entered into this discourse of Lots in general by pursuit of ^hthat Scripture that then I dealt with, though far then from any purpose to publish ought of this argument) upon these considerations.

§ 10. For my selfe, I was at first the rather induced to deliuer my iudgement in the point the more largely (hauing entred into this discourse of Lots in generall by pursuite of ^hthat Scripture that then I dealt with, though far then from any purpose to publish ought of this argument) vpon these considerations.

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First I considered that ⁱthere is a fault as well in straitening as in widening of Gods way; and a subtlety of Satan as well in the one as in the other. For ^*in the one he doth as a Juggler that by putting a pair of false spectacles on a mans nose maketh the bridge seem broader then indeed it is, that he is to go over, that so he may without fear step aside and fall in; and so he dealeth with the dissolute: In the other he doth as a Magician that showeth a man the bridge that he is to pass, through a false glass of an other kind, that representeth it as narrow as the edge of a rapier or the point of a needle, that so he may terrify him from attempting to go over it; and thus dealeth he with those that be over-timorous and full of scruple. And that it is not good therefore by possessing of men's minds with unnecessary scruples, either to discourage those that be coming on to some love and liking of the good ways of God, or