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Common example carries a persuading power with them, its a sufficient reason for their doing because they see it is don. Here they take up their stand. All men for the most part do so, & why may not they?¹ Thus like sheep they follow the drove though it be to the shambles. Especially if they hear of any noted & famous for piety, & godliness to go in such a way, they conclude forthwith, it is the right way: reasoning thus: They are wise and godly, & think you, they durst do it, they would do it, unless it were good and pious? when the truth hath told us, that all m•n are liars, ²& either do, or may deceive, or be deceived; even the courses of the strictest saints have there crackings:³ Peter was a good man, & yet dissembled: and Barnabas was a good man,⁴ & yet was snatched away by example into the same dissimulation. What madness is it because a wise man happily falls into the mire, that we should foul our selves & wallow with him? But the main bulwark whereby they beat back all assaults, is if they ⟨image 14⟩can hold out some Ecclesiastical Canon: The Church enjoins it,⁵ & are you wiser then The Church? This strikes it dead, no man must dare to dispute any further; nay they count it unreasonable, once to demur or doubt any more: but expect, that all men should captivate their conceits presently, & put off reason, & pluck out their eyes, to see by other mens spectacles: which is in truth not only to cease to be Christians, but to be men.

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