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State;* And lastly, he abuses himself; for 

 when the politician hath made his best use o^ 

 his seditious spirit, he leaves him to his own 

 wild distempers, having directed his own 

 thoughts to another goal. 



COLASTERION. 



Although we have caution enough against 

 these in sad and frequent experiences, these 

 latter ages groaning under the effects of an 

 exorbitant clergy ; yet such is the easiness and 

 credulity of the vulgar, such the subtlety and 

 dissembled sanctity of the impostor, that he 

 meets with as great a proneness in the people 

 to be cozened, as he brings willingness to de- 

 lude ; for it is a true observation, that these 

 clancular Sermocinators bear as great sway in 

 popular minds, and make as deep impression 

 upon their consciences, as the loyalists do when 

 they impose upon their blind laity. 



I dare only subjoin a few advices. 



First, I should suspect a clerical statist, I 

 mean such a one as in the dispensation of sacred 

 oracles, tampers with secular affairs, unless it 

 be in case of hisrh concernment to his auditors' 

 souls. 



* Ecclesiae nomine armamini^ et contra Ecclesiam dimicatis 

 Aug. 



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