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David, they would have done, had they lived in 

 his time, and the flagon held out) for when our 

 bellies and our heads are full, then wo be to our 

 governors ; and wealth, and ease, and having 

 nothing to do, make us ripe for any thing that is 

 evil. There were, amongst the new converts of 

 Crete, some false brethren * of the circumcision ; 

 for the stopping of whose mouths, as some have 

 thought, and St.Chrysostom amongst the rest, St. 

 Paul in chief designed this epistle. And I should 

 be glad to be assured, that there are not some 

 amongst us, who, though they love not to bleed, 

 yet, I am afraid, are too prone to Judaize in some 

 other instance, and to retrieve some other part of 

 the Mosaical Psedagogue, which, perhaps, suits no 

 better with that t liberty, to which Christ our 

 Lord hath called us, and in which we ought to 

 stand fast. It is with much reluctance (could I 

 baulk it so full in my way) that I show you the 

 Cretan labyrinth, that not long since, I am sure, 

 was amongst us (God grant it be not still), that 

 inextricable and endless maze of errors and here- 

 sies, that every day opened itself into new paths 

 and alleys : dividing, and subdividing into never 

 ending mistakes, till they had abased, and almost 

 destroyed religion with abominable heterogeneous 

 mixtures, and left the little semblance of Christi- 

 anity was left amongst them, an hideous monster, 

 or Minotaur, Semibovemque virum, Semivirumqiie 



* Jud. ix. V. 10. t Gal. v. 1. 



