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I shall not put the question, whether it be probable that these words could pass from such a man, because he is alive to vindicate himself, if the report be false, or to own it, if true. 19. Do all the contemptuous expressions of a Dissenter so much dishonour the judgement of Dallaeus, as this Dissenters own praise of his former Writings doth honour it, when he saith of him, [A quo nihil hactenus prodii• quod non esset judicii acerrimi, eruditionis reconditissimae, & dostrinae sanctissimae, aut candidissimum pectus non referret; in quo nulla suspicio malignitatis insideret; multò minùs eâ aetate seriâ & serâ erupturae, cùm lenit albescens animos capillus] This is enough to make a stranger conjecture, that the man is not grown either such a fool as to err so grossly as is pretended, or such a knave as to write in the matters of God against his own judgement. And indeed he that will prove himself a wiser, a much wiser man in these matters then ⟨image 10⟩Dallaeus, Blondel, Amyrald. &c. must bring another kind of evidence for the honour of his Wisdom, then Dr L. Molin's Preface or Paraenesis is. 20. Is it not an indignity to the dead, which the living should hear with a pious indignation, for this Learned man to feign that Bp Usher thought so contemptuously of Amyraldus Method? Whatever he might say of him in any other respect, its well known that he owned the substance of his doctrine of Redemption. The high praises therefore which Dr Molin doth give to this reverend Bishop, do dishonour his own judgement, that makes the Bishops doctrine so contemptible and gross. The like dealing I understand, some Arminian Divines (I am loath to name them) have used against this reverend man: One of them of great note hath given out, that he heard him preach for universal Redemption, and afterwards spoke to him, and found him owning it; therefore he was an Arminian: and I hear a Northamptonshire Arminian hath so published him in print. O the unfaithfulness of men seeming pious! The good Bishop must be what every one will say of him. Though one feigneth him to be of one extreme, and the other of the other extreme, ⟨image 10⟩when (alas!) his judgement hath been commonly known in the world about this 30 years to be neither for the one, nor the other, but for the middle way. Do you call for proof?

I shall not put the question, whether it be probable that these words could pass from such a man, because he is alive to vindicate himself, if the report be false, or to own it, if true. 19. Do all the contemptuous expressions of a Dissenter so much dishonour the judgement of Dallaeus, as this Dissenters own praise of his former Writings doth honour it, when he saith of him, [A quo nihil hactenus prodii quod non esset judicii acerrimi, eruditionis reconditissimae, & dostrinae sanctissimae, aut candidissimum pectus non referret; in quo nulla suspicio malignitatis insideret; multò minùs eâ aetate seriâ & serâ erupturae, cùm lenit albescens animos capillus] This is enough to make a stranger conjecture, that the man is not grown either such a fool as to err so grosly as is pretended, or such a knave as to write in the matters of God against his own judgement. And indeed he that will prove himself a wiser, a much wiser man in these matters then