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of their country ; you would think they had 

 their text from a Gazette, because you hear so 

 much of a curranto in the application ; that 

 these may be fit implements for the politician, 

 there are these requisite qualifications. 



1. There must be a principal gift of wresting 

 the Scripture, vexing and urging the holy text, 

 constraining it to patronize the design ; the 

 great Apostle expresses this in three very em- 

 phatical terms : *1. Cogging the Die, making 

 the Word speak what they list. '\2. Crafty 

 Applications, and Expositions of it. J3. All 

 the Methods and Arts of Cozenage,^ gilding 

 and varnishing rotten doctrines. And this 

 must be done, 



1. In public, vomiting out flames and sulphur 

 from that Sacred Pegma, where he should de- 

 liver none but mild and soft, that is. Evangelical 

 embassages. 



II 2. In private, at parlour sermons, and 

 meeting houses, where he is listened to as an 

 oracle ; and here commonly he is more Enthu- 

 siast than Scripturist, and his auditors believe 

 his dreams to be as canonical as the Revela- 



II '0»>to^6ogo», Evangelioptbori. 



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