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imprisoned for religion, he says, &quot; I pray God, that 

 understandeth us all better than we understand one 

 another, contain you, even as I hope he will, at the 

 least, within the bounds of loyalty to his majesty, 

 and natural piety towards your country. And I 

 intreat you much, sometimes to meditate upon the 

 extreme effects of superstition in this last powder 

 treason ; fit to be tabled and pictured in the cham 

 bers of meditation, as another hell above the ground: 

 and well justifying the censure of the heathen, that 

 superstition is far worse than atheism ; by how much 

 it is less evil to have no opinion of God at all, than 

 such as is impious towards his divine majesty and 

 goodness. Good Mr. Matthew, receive yourself 

 back from these courses of perdition. Willing to 

 have written a great deal more, I continue,&quot; etc. 

 In the decline of his life, in his letter ($) to 

 the Bishop of Winchester, he says, &quot; Amongst 

 consolations, it is not the least to represent to 

 a man s self like examples of calamity in others. 

 For examples give a quicker impression than argu- 



(s) This letter was published in Letters and Remains by Ste 

 phens, 1734, with the following note : &quot; The following letter to 

 the most learned Dr. Andrews, bishop of Winchester, was writ 

 ten by my lord St. Alban, in the year 1622 ; and in the nature 

 of a dedication, prefixed before his dialogue, touching a Holy 

 War ; which was not printed, at least correctly, till seven years 

 after, by the care of Dr. Rawley. But because it has been 

 found amongst his lordship s letters and other books, separated 

 from that treatise, and chiefly, because it gives some account 

 of his writings, and behaviour after his retirement, I thought it 

 ery proper to insert it in this place.&quot; See page 112 of this vo 

 lume. 



