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1. Consider what a vile disparagement you do hereby cast upon the Truth: He that doth not prefer it above all things, doth certainly greatly disparage it, he that can but entertain a thought in his heart of letting it go upon any account, must needs be supposed to undervalue it: yea, such a thought as that consented unto, is a formal sale of it, for in that thought he hath indeed let it go: nay, he that makes a deliberate question about it, doth in so doing make a doubt whether there be not something better than the Truth, yea, and that very thing, how vile and base soever it be, for which he thinks of selling it, begins by his so thinking, to challenge in his understanding a ⟨p. 47⟩preference to the Truth: no man can so much as debate within himself about the selling of it, until he hath entertained in his heart, vile and unworthy conceptions of it; and how high a provocation this must needs be to the God of Truth we may well suppose, when we remember that his own name and glory is concerned in it, for the vindication whereof he stands everlastingly engaged, and if men will so far trample upon his honour, as to debase his Truth unto an unworthy sale, they shall find him to be a jealous God, and one that will not so part with his Glory.

1. Consider what a vile disparagement you do hereby cast upon the Truth: He that doth not prefer it above all things, doth certainly greatly disparage it, he that can but entertain a thought in his heart of letting it go upon any account, must needs be supposed to undervalue it: yea, such a thought as that consented unto, is a formal sale of it, for in that thought he hath indeed let it go: nay, he that makes a deliberate question about it, doth in so doing make a doubt whether there be not something better than the Truth, yea, and that very thing, how vile and base soever it be, for which he thinks of selling it, begins by his so thinking, to challenge in his understanding a ⟨p. 47⟩preferrence to the Truth: no man can so much as debate within himself about the selling of it, until he hath entertained in his heart, vile and unworthy conceptions of it; and how high a provocation this must needs be to the God of Truth we may well suppose, when we remember that his own name and glory is concerned in it, for the vindication whereof he stands everlastingly engaged, and if men will so far trample upon his honour, as to debase his Truth unto an unworthy sale, they shall find him to be a jealous God, and one that will not so part with his Glory.