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tion ; like those Melancthon speaks of, Their 

 dreams are all new lights ;* or those that the 

 Father chides, when he tells them that every 

 whimsey is not prophecy.')' 



3. He ought to be of some abilities in dis- 

 puting ; and what he wants in logic, he must 

 supply in garrulity : for whatsoever he affirms, 

 the interest he hath in his seduced hearers, im- 

 proves into a syllogism. You ask after his 

 topics,:}: he has his arguments from Gregory, 

 but not the Saint. If, after his weapons,^ he 

 carries the name of Christ in the van of rebel- 

 lion and robbery ; and the wound he makes is 

 faction ;1| those consciences which will not sur- 

 render to his parley, his Master takes by storm : 

 and thus he abuses Christ, by pretending his 

 favour to unwarrantable actions : he abuses his 

 prince, by alienating the affections and allegiance 

 of his subjects ; he abuses the church, by shat- 

 tering it into rents and schisms, wounding it 

 with a feather from its own wing, snatching a 

 coal from the altar, to fire both Church and 



* Quicquid somniant, volunt esse Spiritum Sanctum. 



X Ex officina carnificum argumenta petit. — Popul. Tec^vTrH- 

 6ta. — S. Hierom. 



§ Armat se ad latrocinium per Christi nomen. 

 II Strada. 



