Cain and Abel malignity that is, enmity to serious godliness, that is, to an…

Through the great mercy of God while the Bible is Licensed, a Preacher in England knoweth not how to spend his hour, if he say not somewhat for Faith and Godliness, Love and Peace: And when they come down, none are so hated by some of them, as those that believe and do to their utmost what they for fashion sake persuaded them to believe and do. Their neighbours who have not a word with the Priest of any thing but this World, nor read a chapter or put up a prayer in their families, these are good and quiet neighbours; But if any seriously prepare for their everlasting state, and mind their Salvation above the World, especially if he pray without-book, and dislike the ignorance and scandalous lives of sorry Priests, these are the dangerous troublers of the land, away with them, and give us those that trouble us not with the talk of God and of death, and Heaven or Hell, of Scripture or of Conscience, and that scruple nothing that we would have them say or do. If such pray, it is but in hypocrisy; If they go to hear any other Preacher, it is in faction. If they speak any words to God which are not written down for them to read, they saucily prate to God and speak but nonsense; If they be earnest as knowing what they pray for, they do but whine and cut faces, and speak through the Nose, or are a pack of groaning Hypocrites. It is confessed that the spirit of Adoption and ⟨p. 10⟩Supplication is Gods Gift; and that this Spirit taught the Bishops and Convocation in what words to pray to God: But if the most holy or learned man besides them pretend to it, and think that any may pray by the Spirits help but the Convocation, there are reverend men that will deride that Spirit or that prayer. I would at least they would let men pray by reason and the sense of their Souls necessities (as a Child will beg pardon of an offended Father,) if they will not give them leave to pray by that Spirit (which all must live by that will be saved.)

Through the great mercy of God while the Bible is Licensed, a Preacher in England knoweth not how to spend his hour, if he say not somewhat for Faith and Godliness, Love and Peace: And when they come down, none are so hated by some of them, as those that believe and do to their utmost what they for fashion sake perswaded them to believe and do. Their neighbours who have not a word with the Priest of any thing but this World, nor read a chapter or put up a prayer in their families, these are good and quiet neighbours; But if any seriously prepare for their everlasting state, and mind their Salvation above the World, especially if he pray without-book, and dislike the ignorance and scandalous lives of sorry Priests, these are the dangerous troublers of the land, away with them, and give us those that trouble us not with the talk of God and of death, and Heaven or Hell, of Scripture or of Conscience, and that scruple nothing that we would have them say or do. If such pray, it is but in hypocrisy; If they go to hear any other Preacher, it is in faction. If they speak any words to God which are not written down for them to read, they sawcily prate to God and speak but nonsence; If they be earnest as knowing what they pray for, they do but whine and cut faces, and speak through the Nose, or are a pack of groaning Hypocrites. It is confest that the spirit of Adoption and