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if any of our * Zarahs thrust forth a hasty hand, 

 and be laid hold on, and the scarlet thread cast 

 about his finger, it is not strange if he draw back 

 his hand, and refuse the primogeniture ; choosing 

 rather to lye hid in obscurity, qiicim vinctus pur- 

 pura progredi, as the great Cardinal f wittily al- 

 ludes. As in Crete new founded, so in England 

 new restored, there must needs be many things 

 wanting, and much amiss, not so easily to be sup- 

 plied or amended. 



When the Lord turned again the captivity of 

 Sion, they made their thankful acknowledgments, 

 and said in the Psalm, J The Lord hath done 

 great things for us already, whereof we will be 

 glad. But then it follows immediately in the 

 next verse, § Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as 

 the rivers in the south. It seems their captivity 

 (I am sure ours) is still to turn again, even after 

 it is returned. For there are relics of it still be- 

 hind, and the sad effects remain, (an age will 

 hardly be able to efface them ;) and, which is the 

 saddest of all, we are still, I fear, in captivity to 

 the same sins that occasioned that ; and they are 

 able to bring upon us ten thousand captivities, 

 worse than the former. Plainly, there are riddles 

 in our condition, (and whose heifer shall we plow 

 with II to unfold them ?) Returned and not re- 

 turned : Restored, and yet not so fully restored : 



* Genes, xxxviii, 28, 29. 



t Baron. Epist. ad Papam Clem. viii. T. 7. 



X Psal. cxxvi. 3. § Ver. 4. || Judg. xiv. 18. 



