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hence the vulgar, & disaffected […], (wanting the faculty to judge of things by themselves) are led only with an out ward appearance, & if once possessed ⟨p. 12⟩with the boldness to despise, & malapertness to impugn those opinions which were before entertained with an awful reverence, will (especially if some Articles of their belief are made questionable) soon admit an equality in all other parts of their Religion, rushing into an inevitable confusion and at last reject (as a tyrannical yoke) all impressions formerly received, either by the authority of Laws, or reverence of custom, and will thence forward allow of nothing, unless they have given their voice and particular consent to the same: thus also are those Professors (almost out of their wits) opinionated in their hearing, so that be the Man not after their humour, the matter shall have no honour; arrogating to the instrument what they derogate from the agent▪ & let him never so much preach the abortive figments of his own Brain, his applause shall be ^*Vox Dei, & non hominis: It is the voice of God and not of man: certainly, though my hea• abhor all unnecessary and superstitious Ceremonies. (earnestly wishing that whatsoever is scandalous, contrary to the truth, and offensive in the exercise of Religion, might be taken off,) yet am I throughly persuaded that God ought to be intermixed in all our actions with an awful reverence, and an attention full of respect, his voice being too Divine to have no other use then to exercise the Lunges and please the fancies: good matter is like a beautiful body, and Eloquence the well fashioned Garment, the one not rudely to be blubbered up, nor the other expressed in careless words: neither ought we (like Bees) always to resort to those flowers which are fair, ⟨p. 13⟩and neglect the wholesome herbs: but O how doth it concern the reformers of these times, to encourage and approve of none, but such moderate wits, whose depth of knowledge hath not led them •o by-paths in judgement, but have walked in the trodden way of the truly reformed Church; esteeming it greater glory to establish an Ancient Truth then ignorantly devise a new opinion: