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I would not be mistaken, as one that delights 

 to libel a whole nation at once (especially mine 

 own); but St. Chrysostom hath dressed an apo- 

 logy for St. Paul in this particular, by distin- 

 guishing, * Ou^ v^pifiHB T8T0 r(0a?, ocKXol E^cJltJta. He 



did it not to injure any, but out of kindness and 

 pure love to reform them: just as our blessed 

 Lord {xvploc iKoJopsTro, saith the same Father, a 

 thousand times reproached the Scribes and Pha- 

 risees ; not because they had wronged him, but 

 lest they should harm and destroy others. And 

 so St. Paul, with the same affections about him, 

 cries, f O insensati Galatce! to one church : Are 

 you such fools? And here. 



That poet was, I think, a prophet indeed, 

 (otherwise than St. Paul meant him,) and sang of 

 us too : and in that verse the present age may see 

 its face, and blush. I appeal to your better ob- 

 servation, if we have not outvied the very Cretans 

 themselves in the first particular ; and in a worse 

 kind too lied for God's sake, and § talked deceit- 

 fully for him. What pious frauds and holy cheats ? 

 What slandering the footsteps of God's anointed, 

 when the interest was to blacken him? What 

 false accusing of our brethren, aye, and of our 

 fathers too? That we might devour the man 



* In Tit. Horn. 1. f Gal. iii. 1. 



X Ver. 12. § Job.xiii. 7. 



