A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and…

4. Did you ever read any sober Writer of another mind?

I beseech you take heed of this pernicious flattery of Professors: And I beseech all the Religious that love their souls, to take heed of being ensnared by such flattery, into a proud, impenitent state.

And in the grief of my heart here, I must say to the people that which I expect this brother should impute to enmity to godliness. You see by this manner of teaching what you have brought your selves and your Teachers to? I have oft grieved to observe, that many look that Preachers should make it their business to flatter them, and extol them in the highest praises, and to prick others as deep, and vilify them as much as may be; and this is the preaching that they are best pleased with. I know that the precious and the vile must be widely differenced, and he is no Preacher of the ⟨p. 123⟩Gospel that doth not do it: But when the Preacher must notify our party as precious, and cast dung on those as vile, whom uncharitable men without proof think vile, and must hide all our sins, as if to touch them were to reproach Religion it self, and must aggravate theirs, even the greatest that differ from us, or else be a flatterer and temporizer; O that such knew but what manner of spirit they are of!

And in the grief of my heart here, I must say to the people that which I expect this brother should impute to enmity to godliness. You see by this manner of teaching what you have brought your selves and your Teachers to? I have oft grieved to observe, that many look that Preachers should make it their business to flatter them, and extoll them in the highest praises, and to prick others as deep, and vilifie them as much as may be; and this is the preaching that they are best pleased with. I know that the precious and the vile must be widely differenced, and he is no Preacher of the