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CHAP. VII. Of Mr. Danvers's many other accusations of me.

§. 1. IT was one of the old Characters of the Heretics in the Apostles days, To speak evil of the things that they understood not.

§. 1. IT was one of the old Characters of the Hereticks in the Apostles dayes, To speak evil of the things that they understood not.

And that may well be their Character in which they contradict the three great constitutive parts of Christianity, and all Religion, and true honesty, viz. TRUTH, HUMILITY and LOVE, by Falsehood, Pride and Malignity, (called commonly Uncharitablness.)

And that may well be their Character in which they contradict the three great constitutive parts of Christianity, and all Religion, and true honesty, viz. TRUTH, HUMILITY and LOVE, by Falshood, Pride and Malignity, (called commonly Ʋncharitablness.)

§. 2. The Root of this is, when Reigning, an unsanctified heart in which these vices remain unmortified, covered from the owners knowledge, by a form of Godliness, and especially a zeal for the ways of some Party, more honoured in the persons eyes for wisdom, or piety than others: In others there is a great measure of the same vices mixed with true Grace, where an evil and a good cause are conjoined as to some effects: They love God and his Truth, and they hate all that they think against him, they would promote piety in the world, and repress what they think against it; And being persons whose wits and studies were not such, as exactness and largeness of knowledge do require, but yet lovers of knowledge, truth, and Scripture, they have