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far▪ be it also from the thoughts of any, that under the pretence of so much expressed loyalty, there should be harboured in any of that grave Synod the least desire to bring in Innovations into the Church or Common-wealth, to derogate any thing from his Majesties honour, or just prerogative to have sinister respects, or splinative intentions, to advance their own liberties by exemption from their an▪ tient privileges, to allow of any government which might counter check the Royal dignity of the Crown, for certainly should they either by private or malicious ends not concurring with the general good of the states, aim at their particular advantage, in what sad Characters shall the misery of this kingdom be hereafter recorded, or what mournful pen, or horrid breath will be able to set forth so unparalleled a Treachery; neither I hope need we fear that those which are thus employed for the defence of the laws, should first enter into […] actual rebellion against their own ordinances, well knowing ⟨p. 36⟩that the way to cure sedition is not to be first infected therewith, neither can they seem to chastise disobedience if they show the example of it, especially in these times of wildness and non-subjection; being fully assured that those which first shake an estate are commonly first over-thrown by the fall; & that the chief movers thereof r•ape not always the fruits of such troubles, but mud only the waters for others to fish; and when all other descriptions of policy, whither sained by art or supposition, prove merely ridiculous and not worthy the practice, their privilege alone it is to re-erect and range the same anew, who throughly know how far any estate is to be wrested from the accustomed habit and fold it hath taken seeing the extreme will dissipate all: neither is it likely that some unhappy destiny hath seated those Worthies on the Theatre of this age to be so dissonant & des•erent in proportion from our deplorable troubles: and so far from agreeing with our tumultuous storms, well considering that nothing doth so nearly touch and overlay an estate as Innovation: for if, one piece be out of Square it may be under propped, but (after the removing the foundation of so vast a frame) to reedify so huge a Mass will prove more likely to deface the whole then refine a part, & instead of cleansing, scrape out.