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1 For his constancy in the doctrine of Religion, vers. 7. What went you out to see? ¹a read shaken with the wind? a light, fickle, and inconstant Preacher, that like a reed ⟨p. 2⟩turns with every wind of doctrine. John was no such man, not like a reed, to yield to the stream or blast of every wind, but like the oak or cedar that stands unmoveably in the midst of the greatest storms.

1 For his constancy in the doctrine of Religion, vers. 7. What went you out to see? ¹a read shaken with the winde? a light, fickle, and inconstant Preacher, that like a reed ⟨p. 2⟩turnes with every winde of doctrine. John was no such man, not like a reed, to yield to the stream or blast of every winde, but like the oake or cedar that stands unmoveably in the midst of the greatest stormes.

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2 For his holiness and high measure of mortification, vers. 8. What went you out to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? John ¹was no such man. He was not at all addicted to the garb and pomp of the Court, but He had a raiment of camels hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins, Matth. 3. 4.

2 For his holinesse and high measure of mortification, vers. 8. What went you out to see? A man cloathed in soft raiment? John