An apologetical reply to a book called an answer to the unjust complaint of…An apologeticall reply to a booke called an ansvver to the unjust complaint of…

First, There is no herb in the garden, but there is some weed in the field like it, & the similitude is such between them,¹ both in shape and colour sometimes, as men may easily mistake the one for the other, through inadvertency, or neglect of examining their different properties. So it falleth out in this case. There is a good contention, an herb whose roots should be watered. It is a contending for the faith, a striving against sin. ⟨p. 18⟩There is a bad contention, a weed which must be pulled up by the roots.² It floweth from pride, and raiseth factions in the Church, and seditions in the Common wealth, of such are the instances produced by the Answerer against the complainants, upon supposal that their complaints are unjust, which if we shall deny, and evince the contrary, his calling them roots of bitterness and evil weeds, and his comparing them to the Rebellious Israelites rising up against Moses and Aron, ³to those sons, by the Mothers side, that were angry with the Church, and to those of Jerusalem, that stoned the Prophets, and to those contentious Corinthians that were factiously addicted to Paul, Apollos, and Cephas, and went to law amongst heathen, and to those Judaizing Galatians, who troubled the Church (as he contumeliously rhethoricateth in the first Section) will prove a notorious slander, and the more grievous, if it shall be found to be a calling of good evil, and because it extendeth to the injury of so many. I appeal to the Answerer. Do these complainants murmur against God^(a) through discontentment with Gods allowance^(b)? or with Gods appointments^(c)? or with Gods judgements upon others^(d)? or through distrust in difficult cases