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commended by St. James, our controversies of them 

 selves would close up and grow together : but most 

 especially, if we would leave the over-weaning and 

 turbulent humours of these times, and revive the 

 blessed proceeding of the Apostles and Fathers of 

 the primitive Church, which was, in the like and 

 greater cases, not to enter into assertions and posi 

 tions, but to deliver counsels and advices, we should 

 need no other remedy at all : &quot; si eadem consulis, 

 frater, quae affirmas^ consulenti debetur reverentia, 

 cum non debeatur fides affirmanti ;&quot; brother, if that 

 which you set clown as an assertion, you would de 

 liver by way of advice, there were reverence due to 

 your counsel, whereas faith is not due to your affir 

 mation. St. Paul was content to speak thus, &quot; Ego, 

 non Dominus,&quot; I, and not the Lord : &quot; Et, secundum 

 consilium meum ;&quot; according to my counsel. But 

 now men do too lightly say, &quot; Non ego, sed Domi- 

 nus not I, but the Lord : yea, and bind it with 

 an heavy denunciation of his judgments, to terrify 

 the simple, which have not sufficiently understood 



out of Solomon, that &quot; the causeless curse shall not 

 come.&quot; 



Therefore seeing the accidents are they which 

 breed the peril, and not the things themselves in 

 their own nature, it is meet the remedies be applied 

 unto them, by opening what it is on either part, 

 that keepeth the wound green, and formalizeth both 

 sides to a farther opposition, and worketh an indis 

 position in men s minds to be reunited : wherein no 

 accusation is pretended ; but I find in reason, that 



