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CHAP. VI. Of his venturous report of Bishop Ushers censure of me.

IN his Reply pag. 51. he saith [I have an honourable regard to his person, and due value to his labours, especially where he has laid out himself to promote practical holiness (and wherein as I have judged his greatest excellency lies) supposing had he let Controversies alone, and addicted himself thereto, he would much more have furthered the peace and union he pretends to promote: It having been, as I have heard, a judgement that Bishop Usher made of him, that if he persisted in Polemical writings, he was like to prove a troubler, rather than a promoter of peace.]

Here, 1. See how he feareth not to make reports of the dead by this hearsay? No wonder if by this sort of men I my self am by backbiting so frequently traduced, and said to Preach and Print that which never was in my mouth or books or thoughts?