A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…

And sometime oppression maketh a wise man mad, Eccles. 7. 7. And sometime impatience prevaileth with the weak to do things unwarrantable: & humane passion blindeth, Reason: & sometime Temptations prevail in this as in other cases: And sometimes Hypocrites, that never had any true Religion, do show their carnal dispositions, and unmortified lusts and passions and pride, by their rebellion against their lawful Governors: and then Religion must bear the blame of the actions of those that counterfeit Religion: and of those crimes which it doth most prohibit and condemn.

And sometime oppression maketh a wise man mad, Eccles. 7. 7. And sometime impatience prevaileth with the weak to do things unwarrantable: & humane passion blindeth, Reason: & sometime Temptations prevail in this as in other cases: And sometimes Hypocrites, that never had any true Religion, do shew their carnal dispositions, and unmortified lusts and passions and pride, by their rebellion against their lawful Governours: and then Religion must bear the blame of the actions of those that counterfeit Religion: and of those crimes which it doth most prohibite and condemn.

In a word, Be the accusation against any particular person just or unjust, nothing is more sure and clear then that he is most unjust that will charge the Christian Religion as guilty of Countenancing any Rebellions, Conspiracies, sedition, disobedience, faction or divisions. Christ went before us in his own example to pay tribute to Caesar: and commanded us to give to Caesar the things that are Caesars: and their false accusing him and condemning him as an offender against Caesar, did no whit move him from the duty of his state of humiliation. What can be more against all Treason and perfidiousness, then that holy doctrine which commandeth us the exactest performance of every lawful promise, much more of our Oaths, and duties of Allegiance? what can be more against Rebellions then that holy doctrine which teacheth us a life of patience and meekness, condemning private revenge, and commanding us rather to turn the other cheek to him that smiteth us, and to give our coat to him that taketh away our cloak, and go two miles with him that would compel us to go one, that is, to suffer yet more, rather then revenge our selves or break peace, or order, or raise wars, to escape such injuries? It is a crucified Christ that conquered by suffering, that