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For there is a nick of temptation, which suits the humour of these temporizing hypocrites, & discovers them ⟨image 12⟩in their colours: & hence it is, that these of Diotrephes his generation, could endure banishment, because that hindered not, but promoted their honour in that kind of suffering: yet when they came into place of supremacy, fell to beating of their fellow brethren, as conceiving the strictness of their course, carried a condemnation of their careless and pompous sensuality.

For ther is a nick of temptation, vvhich stuttes the humor of these temporizing hypocrites, & discovers them ⟨image 12⟩in their colours: & hence it is, that these of Diotrephes his generation, could endure banishment, because that hyndred not, but promoted their honor in that kynd of suffering: yet vvhen they came into place of supremacy, fell to beating of their fellovv brethren, as conceaving the strictnes of their course, caryed a condemnation of their carelesse and pompous sensuality.

We have seen the causes, consider we now the excuses they would pretend for themselves.¹ And here as mens corruptions are diverse, & act more or less strongly, their shifts carry more or less appearance urith them. Here first your statist is most gross, to whom his Religion is as his coin. Al that, goes for currant gospel with him, that is stamped with the authority & allowance of the State: He is hovering betwixt several Religions, that he may take any for his turn, waits & eyes, to see which side is like to prosper, that so he may be of the safest side: And he •esseth him self with the name of a Christian Church, & the substance of Religion. And what ever things are like to prove trouble some, these he vvil make indifferent, that he may take them, or leave them, as he likes best for his ease.