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ceeding on either part, it is directly contrary to my 

 purpose to amplify wrongs: it is enough to note and 

 number them ; which I do also, to move compassion 

 and remorse on the offending side, and not to animate 

 challengers and complaints on the other. And this 

 point, as reason is, doth chiefly touch that side which 

 can do most: &quot; Injuriae potentiorum sunt;&quot; injuries 

 come from them that have the upper hand. 



The wrongs of them which are possessed of the 

 government of the Church towards the other, may 

 hardly be dissembled or excused : they have charged 

 them as though they denied tribute to Cagsar, and 

 withdrew from the civil magistrate the obedience 

 which they have ever performed and taught. They 

 have sorted and coupled them with the &quot; Family of 

 love,&quot; whose heresies they have laboured to destroy 

 and confute. They have been swift of credit to re 

 ceive accusations against them, from those that have 

 quarrelled with them, but for speaking against sin 

 and vice. Their accusations and inquisitions have 

 been strict, swearing men to blanks and generalities, 

 not included within compass of matter certain, which 

 the party which is to take the oath may comprehend, 

 which is a thing captious and strainable. Their 

 urging of subscription to their own articles, is but 

 &quot; lacessere, et irritare morbos Ecclesia3/ which other 

 wise would spend and exercise themselves. &quot; Non 

 consensum quserit sed dissidium, qui, quod factis 

 pr&statur, in verbis exigit :&quot; He seeketh not unity, 

 but division, which exacteth that in words, which 

 men are content to yield in action. And it is true, 



