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Secondly,¹ appear for God and his cause, his truth and his people, though the issue may seem to be dangerous, when none else will: As Ester did, with that brave resolution of hers, If I perish, I perish: And Nehemiah, who though he was something afraid at first to speak to that Heathenish King in the behalf of his Religion and his people, yet having lift up his heart to God, he spake freely unto him. Let not a public good cause be dashed and blasted, and none have a heart to appear for it, for fear of the loss of their own pomp, and carnal delights, and profits; know that the venturing for a public good, is a greater honour then the enjoyment of any private. Camerarius in his Historical Meditations, ⟨p. 73⟩hath a famous story of the chief Courtiers, in the time of Lewis the eleventh, whom when they saw to intend to establish unjust Edicts, they understanding his drift, went all to him in red Gowns; the King asked them, what they would: The President La-Vacqueri answers, We are come with a full purpose to lose our lives every one of us, rather then by our connivency any unjust ordinance should take place: The King being amazed at this answer, and at the constancy and resolution of these Peers, gave them gracious entertainment, and commanded that all the former Edicts should be cancelled in his presence.

Secondly,¹ appeare for God and his cause, his truth and his people, though the issue may seeme to bee dangerous, when none else will: As Ester did, with that brave resolution of hers, If I perish, I perish: And Nehemiah, who though he was something afraid at first to speake to that Heathenish King in the behalfe of his Religion and his people, yet having lift up his heart to God, he spake freely unto him. Let not a publike good cause be dashed and blasted, and none have a heart to appeare for it, for feare of the losse of their own pompe, and carnall delights, and profits; know that the venturing for a publike good, is a greater honour then the enjoyment of any private. Camerarius in his Historicall Meditations, ⟨p. 73⟩hath a famous story of the chiefe Courtiers, in the time of Lewis the eleventh, whom when they saw to intend to establish unjust Edicts, they understanding his drift, went all to him in red Gownes; the King asked them, what they would: The President La-Vacqueri answers, We are come with a full purpose to lose our lives every one of us, rather then by our connivencie any unjust ordinance should take place: The King being amazed at this answer, and at the constancie and resolution of these Peeres, gave them gracious entertainment, and commanded that all the former Edicts should be cancelled in his presence.