The works of George Swinnock, M.A

These men are usually eagle-eyed abroad, but as blind as Moles at home; The most vicious, are ever the most suspicious; As Galileus looked through his Prospective-glass to find Mountains in the Moon, ¹so these examine others lives, and search their actions as narrowly as Laban did Jacobs stuff, to find matter of accusation. But as its Fabled of old Lamia, that she had eyes like unto spectacles, which she might take out and put in at her pleasure, and that as soon as she came into her house, she always locked them up in her coffer, and sat down ⟨p. 269⟩to spinning as blind as a Beetle, and that when she went abroad, she put them into her head, and would very curiously behold what other men did. So the Censurer is so quick-sighted abroad, that he can see the moats in others eyes, but so blind within doors, that he cannot see the beam in his own.²

These men are usually eagle-eyed abroad, but as blind as Moles at home; The most vicious, are ever the most suspicious; As Galileus looked through his Prospective-glass to find Mountains in the Moon, ¹so these examine others lives, and search their actions as narrowly as Laban did Iacobs stuff, to find matter of accusation. But as its Fabled of old Lamia, that she had eyes like unto spectacles, which she might take out and put in at her pleasure, and that as soon as she came into her house, she always locked them up in her coffer, and sat down ⟨p. 269⟩to spinning as blind as a Beetle, and that when she went abroad, she put them into her head, and would very curiously behold what other men did. So the Censurer is so quick-sighted abroad, that he can see the moats in others eyes, but so blind within doors, that he cannot see the beam in his own.²

1. 1Qui judicat fratrem, tantum crimen elation•s incurrit, ut Christi tribunal sibi videatur assume, & ejus judicium praeenire. Ans. in