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which impugn the present ecclesiastical government ; 

 who although they have not cut themselves off from 

 the body and communion of the Church, yet do they 

 affect certain cognisances and differences, wherein 

 they seek to correspond amongst themselves, and to 

 be separate from others. And it is truly said, &quot; tarn 

 sunt mores quidam schismatici, quam dogmata schis- 

 matica ;&quot; there be as well schismatical fashions as 

 opinions. First, they have impropriated unto them 

 selves the names of zealous, sincere, and reformed ; 

 as if all others were cold minglers of holy things and 

 profane, and friends of abuses. Yea, be a man 

 endued with great virtues, and fruitful in good 

 works ; yet if he concur not with them, they term 

 him, in derogation, a civil and moral man, and com 

 pare him to Socrates, or some heathen philosopher : 

 whereas the wisdom of the Scriptures teacheth us 

 otherwise ; namely, to judge and denominate men 

 religious according to their works of the second 

 table ; because they of the first are often counter 

 feit, and practised in hypocrisy. So St. John saith, 

 that &quot; a man doth vainly boast of loving God whom 

 he never saw, if he love not his brother whom he 

 hath seen.&quot; And St. James saith, &quot; This is true 

 religion, to visit the fatherless and the widow,&quot; So 

 as that which is with them but philosophical and 

 moral, is, in the apostle s phrase, &quot; true religion and 

 Christianity.&quot; As in affection they challenge the 

 said virtues of zeal and the rest ; so in knowledge 

 they attribute unto themselves light and perfection. 

 They say, the Church of England in King Edward s 



