Eugenia's tears for Great Britons distractions, or, Some slender observations reflecting on those sad…Evgenia's teares for Great Brittaynes distractions, or, Some slender observations reflecting on those sad…

And certainly where all reverence is thus laid aside, devotion will at last grow cold; and I think in time it will be easier to find out the species and kinds of nature, then the Sects of this age▪ mistake ⟨p. 11⟩me not, I censure not all […] H•cks, whi• are not Orthodox, neither condemn all to be Schismatics because some fall out to •e facti•us in Israel; but where pride and discontent meet with novelty good parts wi•h impudency, and ignorance with pretended Sanctity, there division mu•t needs […] defect, as union is the Author of Beauty and blessedness: no humour •eing so easily counterfeited as that of devotion, which […] sports so many Ministers beyond themselves, some flashing in their ma•ter, but confused in their Method, some being as invective in their delivery, as dreaming in their utterance; some with the flaming fire of ill tempered & indiscreet zeal, shake their Auditors (like Earthquakes) with i• applied terrors of the Law, oftentimes tending to desperation, ^*but the Lord is not in that fire, but in the still voice; stanching the bleeding heart and d•oping the oil of the Gospel into the wounded conscience; some pride themselves with the bubble of popular applause (often as causelessly gotten) as deservedly lost, soothing the people with such doctrine as may comply with their humours, and thus as the Sun ris•g & declining makes long shadows, but at mid-day being at the highest make▪ none at all, so ostentation, sincerity, & learning seldom meet in those Pastors; which (l•ke the Par•redge) run away with part of the shell on their heads; and leaving their unripened learning in those sacred Schools (if they voucsat't to see them) aim at their advantage in the Country, & for a fit treasure become thieves;