I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also,…

And so much the greater the sin is, by how much the more the sinner boasts it with a pretended sanctity, as the Jews did to Christ, in John 8. 41, to 45. which made Christ even in plain terms to tell them their doom, for all their hypocritical pretences. And yet forsooth, every cursed whoremaster, thief and drunkard, swearer, and perjured person, they that have not only been such in times past, but are even so still; these, I say, by some must be counted the only honest men, and all because, ⟨p. 44⟩with their blasphemous throats and hypocritical hearts, they will come to Church and say, Our Father. Nay further, these men, though every time they say to God, our Father, do most abominably blaspheme, yet they must be compelled thus to do. And because others that are of more sober Principles, scruple the truth of such vain Traditions; therefore they must be looked upon to be the only Enemies of God and the Nation, Isa. 53. 10. when as it is their own cursed Superstition, that doth set the great God against them, and cause him to count them for his enemies. And yet, just like to Bonner, that blood-red Persecutor, they commend (I say) these wretches, although never so vile (if they close in with their Traditions) to be good Churchmen, the honest subjects; while God's People are (as it hath always been, Ezra 4. 12, to 16.) looked upon to be a turbulent, seditious, and factious people.

And so much the greater the sin is, by how much the more the sinner boasts it with a pretended sanctity, as the Jews did to Christ, in John 8. 41, to 45. which made Christ even in plain terms to tell them their doom, for all their hypocritical pretences. And yet forsooth, every cursed whoremaster, thief and drunkard, swearer, and perjured person, they that have not only been such in times past, but are even so still; these, I say, by some must be counted the only honest men, and all because, ⟨p. 44⟩with their blasphemous throats and hypocritical hearts, they will come to Church and say, Our Father. Nay further, these men, though every time they say to God, our Father, do most abominably blaspheme, yet they must be compelled thus to do. And because others that are of more sober Principles, scruple the truth of such vain Traditions; therefore they must be looked upon to be the only Enemies of God and the Nation,