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but before ⟨p. 20⟩I wade further into this Deluge of distempers, let not any think (either through the perverseness of their affected ignorance, or the known blackness of their own thoughts) that it is my intent here to ay me or invect against the truly Religious or well minded Christian, or to brand any honest man with the name of Puritan, being assured that though many with an ignorant painted and superficial outside (deluding our eyes and gulling our Souls) manifest themselves at last to be but mere Hypocrites, gilded Pills, •nd the rich coverings of dirty walls; yet the most zealous and well governed men of these times, who with no less pains then detestation, Preach down sin and ungodliness, expressing the power of the Word by its operation in a Sanctified, pure, and unspo•ted life, and without Hypocrisy or sinister ends striving both in life and doctrine to suppres•e all sin, are too often and unjustly branded with that scandalous title; such Puritans we must all be which mean to see Heaven, that Character being truly placed when it meets with the contemners of the Church and State, which aim at the evertion of doctrine and discipline; of which though it may now be said as Christ once did of the Damosel, she is not dead but sleepeth, yet is it not to be doubted, but future time will distinguish between those over-mouthed professors; whose tongues are in their hearts, and those true Nathaniels whose hearts are in their tongues; and though none are more bitterly envenomed against Sovereign Authority, the State Ecclesiastical, and the lawful approved decency of the Church▪ though none are more invective against the ⟨p. 21⟩flourishing blessings of the time, no mouths more railingly open with the terms of Reprobate, and the denouncing of Gods judgments upon all the world but himself and his Sect, and none more lawless nor desirous to have all things in Common; yet the prayers of Gods Children shall quench their fiery Furnace, Daniel shall not be hurt with their Lionlike mouths; the seditious Israelites shall be appea•'d for Moses sake▪ (a•d by the powerful groans of the truly Religious) Pauls bands shall be loosed, the barren womb of ignorance be made more fruitful, and locked-up Heaven, be for ever and (more powerfully) opened;