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and state it thus ; ' That whereas St. Paul had 

 corrected some things, and so far ; Titus should 

 go on where he left, and complete what he had 

 begun ; bringing them yet to another test, till 

 they came forth, like gold, more than once tried 

 in the furnace.' 



An hint which will perhaps be too greedily 

 catched at by those to whose advantage it was 

 never intended. A sort of men, that are all for 

 super-corrigas, but it is still on the wrong side, 

 and of that which is not amiss. The reformers of 

 the world, and syndics of all Christendom ; men 

 but of yesterday, yet wiser and better than all the 

 fathers, that over-correct, and over-reform every 

 thing : correct Magnificat itself, before they be 

 out of danger of the rest of the Proverb : correct, 

 not the Cretans and their amisses, but Titus and 

 his Elders, serving all antiquity, and patterns of 

 primitive government, as * Procrustes did his 

 guests, who still reduced them to the scantling of 

 his beds. So these, either cutting them short, or 

 forcing them out longer, till they apply to the j ust 

 model they have fancied to themselves, and would 

 impose upon others. Thus Titus must be screwed 

 up into an extraordinary, and so a temporary 

 officer, an Evangelist, or a secondary Apostle, (as 

 Walo Messalinus, and others,) not a fixed and or- 

 dinary governor of the Church of Crete, lest that 

 come cross to their designs : and on the other 



■* Arayxacra? uvrhq ociptativ roTq >tXn/T?go"». Plut, in Thesev. 



