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Fiftly, Are these men opposites each to other? The good Lord discover to him, in mercy, the evill of that principle in his owne spirit, from whence these discoveryes of other mens differences flowed! For. 1, Who called him to publish to the world such mens private differences, there being neither need, nor good use of it, in this place? was not this in part prophesyed of, to be in the last dayes and perilous times, that men should be 〈non-Latin alphabet〉? Is not this plainely against aequity and charity,¹ boath at once? To what end doeth this passage tend, but to cause strife and contention betweene so many of these as are alive (& the Apostle Iames² telleth us from whence this wisdom descendeth) and to blemish both the living and the dead, by leaving them under the censure, or suspition of Errour. For it is a received Canon concerning contrary positions. They may be boath false, but they cannot boath be true. 3. What event, or issue of such unseasonable discoveries can be expected, but scandall? Hence Atheists, Libertines, profane persons cast off all care of Religion, yea hence all Haereticks and Sectaries are hardned against the Orthodox, because they agree not among themselves. What rule is here by transgressed I need not tell the Answerer.