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In Demeaning,

Which is the good harmony betwixt the tongue and the hand. The righteous man, to whom Gods celestial Tabernacle is promised, speaketh the truth in his heart: ¹and when he hath sworn, though to his own hurt, he changeth not. The paucity of these men makes the Church of God so thin of Saints, and the world so full of Dissemblers. As the tongue must not speak false, so the hand must not do unjustly: injustice is the greatest dissimulation. We live under Libra, Justice and Equity: who knows whether the nights or the days pass over his head more happily: we fear ⟨p. 23⟩not Taurus the Bull, that shoots his horns from Rome: nor Scorpio, that sends his venomous sting from Spain: nor the unchristened Aries of Infidels, profane and profest enemies to engine and batter our walls: if the Sagittarius of heresy do not wound us in the reins: nor the Gemini of double-dealing circumvent us in our lives. The world is full of tricks: we will not do what we ought, yet defend what we do. How many spend their wits to justify their hands? Through the unlucky and unnatural copulation of fraud and malice, was that monstrous stigmatic Equivocation engendered: a damned egg, not covered by any fair bird; but hatched, as Poets feign, of Ospreys, with a thunder-clap.

WHich is the good harmony betwixt the tongue and the hand. The righteous man, to whom Gods celestiall Tabernacle is promised, speaketh the truth in his heart: ¹and when he hath sworne, though to his owne hurt, he changeth not. The paucitie of these men makes the Church of God so thinne of Saints, and the world so full of Dissemblers. As the tongue must not speake false, so the hand must not doe vniustly: iniustice is the greatest dissimulation. We liue vnder Libra, Iustice and Equitie: who knowes whether the nights or the daies passe ouer his head more happily: we feare ⟨p. 23⟩