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§. 4. And O what pity is it that with the vulgar sort of well-meaning people, number goeth for weight, and he seemeth to be in the right to them, who is nearest them and hath best opportunity to talk to them a few smooth deceitful words for his opinion, and to belie and vilify those that are against him! Not but that there are great fundamental Truths which manifest themselves, which I hope these honest souls would not be drawn from by an Angel from Heaven: But verily no true Charity can be so blind as to deny it, that in lower controverted points, the knowledge of the vulgar Religious people is so low, that he that is lower than an Angel, or than a well-studied Divine, or than a man of sober solid reason, may deceive them (having first been himself deceived) if he can but speak zealously, and reproach others impudently, by the spirit described and exorcised in Jam. 3. at large.

§. 4. And O what pity is it that with the vulgar sort of well-meaning people, number goeth for weight, and he seemeth to be in the right to them, who is nearest them and hath best opportunity to talk to them a few smooth deceitful words for his opinion, and to belie and vilifie those that are against him! Not but that there are great fundamental Truths which manifest themselves, which I hope these honest souls would not be drawn from by an Angel from Heaven: But verily no true Charity can be so blind as to deny it, that in lower controverted points, the knowledge of the vulgar Religious people is so low, that he that is lower than an Angel, or than a well-studied Divine, or than a man of sober solid reason, may deceive them (having first been himself deceived) if he can but speak zealously, and reproach others impudently, by the spirit described and exorcised in Jam. 3. at large.

§. 5. And I crave thy pity, Reader, to my self and such as I, that our Time and Employment is so much at the will and mercy of such a sort of wrangling men. That if I have it in my desire to do Gods Church service upon some greater and more needful subject, yet it is in the power of the Devil to stir up the corruption of honest well-meaning Christians, to put a necessity on me to do some poor inconsiderable works, and leave undone the greater and more excellent.