as we have the Common Law for all England, and yet you have fome Corporations, that, befides that, have peculiar Laws and priviledges to themselves.

2. Talk what you will of the Jews, that they are Curfed, they thrive where e're they come, they are able to oblige the Prince of their Country by lending him money, none of them beg, they keep together, and for their being hated, my life for yours, Chriftians hate one another as much.

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Envincible Egnorance.

IS all one to me if I am told of Christ, or fome Mystery of Chriftianity, if I am not capable of understanding, as if I am not told at all, my Ignorance is as invincible, and therefore 'tis vain to call their Ignorance only invincible, who never were told of Chrift. The trick of it is to advance the Priest, whilst the Church of Rome fays a Man must be told of Christ, by one thus and thus ordain'd.

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Emages.

HE Papists taking away the second [Commandment], is not haply fo horrid a thing, nor fo unreasonable amongst Christians as we make it. For the Jews could make no figure of God, but they must commit Idolatry, because he had taken no shape, but since the Affumption of our flesh, we know what shape to picture God in. Nor do I know why we may not make his Image, provided we be fure what it is: as we fay Saint Luke took the picture of the Virgin Mary, and Saint Veronica of our Saviour. Otherwise it would be no honour to the King, to make a Picture, and call it the King's Picture, when 'tis nothing like him.

2. Though the Learned Papists pray not to Images, yet 'tis to be feared the ignorant do; as appears by that Story of St. Nicholas in Spain. A Countrey-man us'd to offer daily to St. Nicholas's Image, at length by mifchance the Image was broken, and a new one made of his own Plumb-Tree; after that the man forbore, being complain'd of to his Ordinary, he answer'd, 'tis

true, he us'd to offer to the Old Image, but to the new he could not find in his heart, because he knew 'twas a piece of his own Plumb Tree. You fee what Opinion this man had of the Image, and to this tended the bowing of their Images, the twinkling of their Eyes, the Virgins Milk, &c. Had they only meant representations, a Picture would have done as well as thefe tricks. It may be with us in England they do not worship images, because living among Protestants, they are either laught out of it, or beaten out of it by fhock of Argument.

3. 'Tis a difcreet way concerning Pictures in Churches, to fet up no new, nor to pull down no old.

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Emperial Constitutions.

Hey fay Imperial Conftitutions did only confirm the Canons of the Church, but that is not fo, for they inflicted punishment, when the Canons never did. (viz.) If a man Converted a Christian to be a Jew, he was to forfeit his Estate, and lofe his Life. In Valentines Novels 'tis faid. Conflat Epifcopus Forum Legibus non habere, et Judicant tantum de Religione.

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Emprisonment,

IR Kenelme Digby was feveral times taken and let go again, at laft Imprifon'd in WinchesterHoufe. I can compare him to nothing but a great Fish that we catch and let go again, but still he will come to the Bait, at laft therefore we put him into fome great Pond for Store.

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Encendiaries.

Ancy to your self a Man fets the City on Fire at Cripplegate, and that Fire continues by means of others, 'till it come to White-Fryers, and then he that began it would fain quench it, does not he deserve to be punisht most that first set the City on Fire? So 'tis with the Incendiaries of the State. They that first fet it on fire [by Monopolizing, Forrest Business, Imprisoning Parliament Men, tertio Caroli,

&c.] are now become regenerate, and would fain quench the Fire; Certainly they deferv'd most to be punish'd, for being the firft Cause of our Distractions.

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Endependency.

Ndependency is in ufe at Amfterdam, where forty Churches or Congregations have nothing to do one with another. And 'tis no question agreeable to the Primitive times, before the Emperour became Chriftian. For either we must say every Church govern'd it felf, or else we must fall upon that old foolish Rock, that St. Peter and his Succeffours govern'd all, but when the Civil State became Christian, they appointed who fhould govern them, before they govern'd by agreement and confent; if you will not do this, you shall come no more amongst us, but both the Independant man, and the Presbyterian man do equally exclude the Civil Power, though after a different manner.

2. The Independant may as well plead, they should not be fubject to temporal Things, not come before a Constable, or a Juftice of Peace, as they plead they fhould not be fubject in Spiritual things, because St Paul fays, Is it fo, that there is not a wife man amongst you?

3. The Pope challenges all Churches to be under him, the King and the two Arch-Bishops challenge all the Church of England to be under them. The Presbyterian man divides the Kingdom into as many Churches as there be Presbyteries, and your Independant would have every Congregation a Church by it self.

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Things Endifferent.

N a time of Parliament, when things are under debate, they are indifferent, but in a Church or State fetled, there's nothing left indifferent.

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Publick Enterest.

LL might go well in the Common-Wealth, if every one in the Parliament would lay down his own Interest, and aim at the general good. If a man were fick, and the whole Colledge of

Physicians should come to him, and administer severally, haply fo long as they obferv'd the Rules of Art he might recover, but if one of them had a great deal of Scamony by him, he must put off that, therefore he prescribes Scamony. Another had a great deal of Rubarb, and he must put off that, and therefore he preícribes Rubarb, &c. they would certainly kill the man. We destroy the Common-wealth, while we preserve our own private Interefts, and neglect the Publick.

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Humane Envention.

OU say there must be no Human Invention in the Church, nothing but the pure word. Anfwer. If I give any Expofition, but what is exprefs'd in the Text, that is my invention: if you give another Expofition, that is your invention, and both are Human. For Example, fuppofe the word [Egg] were in the Text, I fay, 'tis meant an Henn-Egg, you fay a Goose-Egg, neither of these are exprest, therefore they are Humane Invention, and I am fure the newer the Invention the worse, old Inventions are best.

2. If we must admit nothing, but what we read in the Bible, what will become of the Parliament? for we do not read of that there.

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E cannot tell what is a Judgment of God, 'tis prefumption to take upon us to know, In time of Plague we know we want health, and therefore we pray to God to give us health; in time of War we know we want peace, and therefore we pray to God to give us peace. Commonly we fay a Judgment falls upon a man for 1omething in them we cannot abide. An Example we have in King James, concerning the death of Henry the Fourth of France; one faid he was kill'd for his Wenching, another faid he was kill'd for turning his Religion. No, lays King James (who could not abide fighting) he was kill'd for permitting Duels in his Kingdom.

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Judge.

E fee the Pageants in Cheapfide, the Lions, and the Elephants, but we do not fee the men that carry them; we fee the Judges look big, look like Lions, but we do not fee who moves them. 2. Little things do great works, when great things will not. If I fhould take a Pin from the ground, a little pair of Tongues will do it, when a great pair will not. Go to a Judge to do a business for you, by no means he will not hear it; but go to fome small Servant about him, and he will dispatch it according to your hearts defire.

3. There could be no mischief done in the Commonwealth without a Judge. Though there be falfe Dice brought in at the Groom-Porters, and cheating offer'd, yet unless he allow the Cheating, and judge the Dice to be good, there may be hopes of fair play.

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Juggling.

IS not Juggling that is to be blam'd, but much Juggling, for the World cannot be Govern'd without it. All your Rhetorick, and all your Elenchs in Logick come within the compafs of Juggling.

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Jurisdiction.

Here's no fuch Thing as Spiritual Jurifdiction,

all is Civil, the Churches is the fame with the Lord Mayors; suppose a Christian came into a Pagan Country, how can you fancy he fhall have any Power there? he finds faults with the Gods of the Country, well, they will put him to Death for it, when he is a Martyr, what follows? Does that argue he has any Spiritual Jurifdiction? If the Clergy fay the Church ought to be govern'd thus, and thus, by the word of God, that is Doctrine all, that is not Discipline.

2. The Pope he challenges Jurifdiction over all, the Bishops they pretend to it as well as he, the Presbyterians they would have it to themselves, but over whom is all this? the poor Laymen.