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dictions than truth, and church-men rather division 

 than union. But all disputes and arguments in 

 divinity are onely fit for church -men, whose profes- 

 sion is to be teachers and instructors in the Divine 

 laws, and not for lay-men, unless they intend to be 

 church-men: for as all national laws have judges, 

 Serjeants, barresters, attornies, and the like, to 

 perform and execute the common and civil laws, that 

 have been prudently enacted for the good and benefit 

 of the bodily life and commonwealth; so there are 

 bishops, deans, deacons, parish-priests and curats, 

 to perform and execute the divine laws, which have 

 been spiritually enacted for the salvation of men's 

 souls; and as lawyers are informers of the national 

 laws, and pleaders of causes, so ministers are informers 

 of the divine laws, and teachers of good life, and all 

 spiritual causes should be decided by the bishops, as 

 all national or human causes by the judges. Otherwise, 

 there would be a confusion both in Church and state ; 

 wherefore those that are not of that profession, ought 

 not to meddle therewith, or dispute thereof, but to 

 submit to that which our fore-fathers thought fit 

 to enact, order, and dispose, for the good of their 

 successors, and succedent times; and so leaving 

 O. G. and C. O. to agree if they can, 



I rest. Madam, 

 Your faithful fr. and s. 



ON THE LADY P. Y.'S PIETY 



Madam, — ^As for the Lady P. Y. who, you say, 

 spends most of her time in prayer, I can hardly believe 

 God can be pleased with so many words, for what 

 shall we need to speak so many words to God, who 



