With much warmth and vigour, that if it were possible he might reduce those that went astray. And though such as were touched in their sores were angry, and said, it was passion, and his natural heat was Kitchen fire, the effect of his natural Spirit, yet the judicious knew otherwise, that it was a coal from the Altar, true zeal, the fruit of Gods Spirit, in him knowing that he was set [Greek or Hebrew], (as the Apostle speaks, Phil. 1. 17. For the defence of the Gospel. Some of those that separated, were very dear to him, that he might say as David, It was not an enemy that reproached me, then I could have born it willingly, was it he that hated me, that did magnify himself against me? But it was my friend and my acquaintance, we took sweet counsel together, and (formerly) walked to the house of God in Company, Psa. 55. 12, 13, 14. But as dear as they were to him, the Truth of the Gospel were much dearer, Amicus Socrates, amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas. And he was a man of such clear convincing light, and as it is said of Apollos, Acts 18. 24. [Greek or Hebrew], able, strong, mighty in the Scriptures, that had they not been wilfully blind, or very weak eyed, they must have seen their errors. It is observed ⟨p. 47⟩by some as a special Providence of God, that the same day in which Pelagius the Heretic was born in Britain, St. Augustine the great Confuter of his Heresy was born in Africa; God so disposing it, that the Poison and the Antidote should come into the World together, I am sure it was a good providence to Maidstone, that when many errors sprung up, there was such an able faithful Husbandman to watch them and root them out, otherwise many more then did, might have fallen from their own steadfastness, and been led away with the errors of the times.
With much warmth and vigour, that if it were possible he might reduce those that went astray. And though such as were toucht in their sores were angry, and said, it was passion, and his natural heat was Kitchin fire, the effect of his natural Spirit, yet the judicious knew otherwise, that it was a coal from the Altar, true zeal, the fruit of Gods Spirit, in him knowing that he was set 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, (as the Apostle speaks, Phil. 1. 17. For the defence of the Gospel. Some of those that separated, were very dear to him, that he might say as David, It was not an enemy that reproached me, then I could have born it willingly, was it he that hated me, that did magnisie himself against me? But it was my friend and my acquaintance, we took sweet counsel together, and (formerly) walked to the house of God in Company, Psa. 55. 12, 13, 14. But as dear as they were to him, the Truth of the Gospel were much dearer, Amicus Socrates, amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas. And he was a man of such clear convincing light, and as it is said of Apollos, Acts 18. 24. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, able, strong, mighty in the Scriptures, that had they not been wilfully blind, or very weak eyed, they must have seen their errors. It is observed ⟨p. 47⟩by some as a special Providence of God, that the same day in which Pelagius the Heretick was born in Brittain, St. Augustine the great Confuter of his Heresie was born in Affrick; God so disposing it, that the Poison and the Antidote should come into the World together, I am sure it was a good providence to Maidstone, that when many errors sprung up, there was such an able faithful Husbandman to watch them and root them out, otherwise many more then did, might have fallen from their own stedfastness, and been led away with the errors of the times.
