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Reason 1 First, they hate righteousness, and love iniquity, as Christ and Christians do love righteousness, and hate iniquity: and therefore they like not that any man should delight in that which they hate, but wish that every one would accompany them in doing that which they love.

Reason 1 First, they hate righteousnesse, and loue iniquitie, as Christ and Christians doe loue righteousnesse, and hate iniquitie: and therefore they like not that any man should delight in that which they hate, but wish that euery one would accompanie them in doing that which they loue.

Secondly, they think that sin will lie the lighter upon their own consciences, if others can be drawn into guiltiness with them; and that they shall be the less blemished by that wherewith their neighbours are so much blotted, though they make their burden heavier, and their faults fouler by seducing their brethren.

Secondly, they thinke that sinne will lie the lighter vpon their owne consciences, if others can be drawen into guiltinesse with them; and that they shall be the lesse blemished by that wherewith their neighbours are so much blotted, though they make their burden heauier, and their faults fouler by seducing their brethren.

Thirdly, they are of their father the devil, and the lusts of their father they must and will do. He hath been a deceiver from the ¹beginning, and sinful wretches will be factors for him until the end: they can no way else so much resemble him, or so well content him.

Thirdly, they are of their father the diuell, and the lusts of their father they must and will doe. He hath beene a deceiuer from the