REFLECTION, IN VINDICATION OF ONE archdeacon,( And consequently of All) From the scurrilous and groundless Invectives against him,( besides several other more eminent Persons) in a late scandalous Pamplet, entitled, A pretended Visitor visited.  
In a LETTER, &c.  1 Pet. 3.11. 
He that will love Life, and see good Days, let him refrain his Tongue from Evil, and his Lips that they speak no Guile.  
LONDON, Printed for Awnsham Churchil, at the Black Swan in Ave-mary-Lane, MDCXC.   

A VINDICATION OF ONE archdeacon, &c.  
SIR,  
I Have received the new Piece, which I find to be another draft,( much like the former) of Spite and Pride, of Envy, Malice and Revenge, and of unparalleled Arrogance, under the Colours of Plain-dealing.  
But to deal plainly, Is it not a lamentable and monstrous thing, to see a Man sitting in the Seat of the Scornful, and out of the Shop of his Common-Place-Book, casting about holy Fire; and with the pretence of extraordinary Zeal for Religion and Reformation, rebuking and exhorting others with more than Authority; I say, to see such a one, even while he is about this very Work, giving a thousand stroke of his own ill Manners, and worse Nature, and such as Charity itself can find no other use of, but to draw his own peculiar Character in all the Graces before-mentioned; as if the Man had designed and studied as much, to bewray himself in his own Dung, as to cast it upon others?  
Moreover, with respect to the archdeacon( as well as to his Visitor) 'tis the very Picture of Ill-Luck.  

SECT. I.  
FOR first, in a great part of his rancorous Pamphlet, he persecutes the archdeacon with this Charge, That he hath not used his Power to correct 'vice: Whereas the archdeacon may challenge him to give one Instance, or to name one scandalous Person, that hath been duly presented to his Court, that hath not been prosecuted according to Law; except only one, for which Omission he hopes this Visitor will excuse him. Indeed, there was a Clergy-man, well known to himself, that tho he had a good Parsonage of his own, ascended to the Degree of a Curate in another place, more than twenty Miles distant from his own Rectory( doubtless out of abundance of care of his proper Charge, and for no by-Ends:) This Clergy-man, tho as great a Momus as himself, continued for several years together so shamefully and scandalously to neglect his own Parish, neither visiting it himself, nor taking tolerable Care to have it supplied by sufficient curates, for a long time together, having none at all, and sometimes one, that was worse than none. This Person, I confess, had the Clamours of the Country, both Clergy and Laity: This Person, I confess, was often signified to the Arch-Deacon's Court, as well as to the Bishop's, for his unprecedented and profligate Forgetfulness or Contempt of his Duty: and though the archdeacon was thereunto often urged with great Importunity and Reason, yet out of respect to his Person, as well as his Calling and Parts; hoping still that the Clamours of the Country, and some private Intimations would have brought him home to his Duty, if he had any Grace or shane. I confess, the archdeacon did neglect to prosecute him with the Severity he deserved; for which perhaps he may have some cause to fear, that God hath suffered his unruly Evil to be his Scourge.  
2. But this Charge is hotly aggravated, page. 6. If you say( saith he to the archdeacon) there are no Presentments made of such Crimes and Offences as I writ of, Whose Fault is it, that they have not been questioned by whom Presentments have been wilfully omitted? Not so much as one Drunkard, Blasphemer, Swearer or lewd Liver within your Arch-deaconry?  
Sol. 'Tis hence evident, that those that look too much abroad, are the less conscious of their own Faults. If his own Parish, as well as the Neighbourhood, be indeed so vile as he would represent them: two Reasons are at hand for it; First, Supposing a doubtful thing, that he is careful to do the Duty of his Place, now he is amongst them, yet the ill Consequences of his former so long and scandalous Absence and Neglects may not yet be worn out. Secondly, His despising that Authority, and disowning those Courts in the customary Places, where they are kept on purpose to receive Presentments, and reform ill Manners. To complain, the End is not obtained; and yet not to use, but defy, the ordinary Means of it, is another Reason, with the addition of Hypocrisy. But put the Case as it ought to be: Suppose the Churchwardens, after they have been sworn, and admonished by the archdeacon, to discharge their Oaths and Duties faithfully, they do grossly neglect to present the Scandalous: speak wisely, Where is the Fault, if the Scandalous be not prosecuted? In this Case, if the Minister will neither present the Scandalous himself, nor the Wardens for not presenting, sure such a Minister hath the least cause to complain of the Court, because 'vice is not punished: he knows but little, if he knows not, that the archdeacon must proceed only secundum Allegata & Probata. If there be no Presentment, 'tis plain that the neglect of Punishment comes not upon the Courts, but upon the Wardens, and upon the Minister, who knows those in his Parish that ought to be presented and prosecuted, and yet doth not his lawful endeavour to have them so. Whatever Men imagine or talk to that purpose, 'tis no easy matter to transfer all Faults unpunished upon the archdeacon, or his Office: And if this be a third Account of the Matter, more severe than he expected, he must remember that a Gun over-charged will recoil.  
I shall set before him a notable Example, as pertinent as any in his Common-Place-Book: If it be not to be found there, he may have it in a late Author; it may perhaps instruct him a little, if any thing can cure a cankerous Envy, besides Preferment, which I fear he despairs of: The Example is given him in the words, and from the Experience of a certain Bishop of London, in Hen. 2d's Time, thus;  
When( saith he) I first entred into a Monastery, I was wont to blame very much the sluggishness of my Governors. When I became a Prior, I would complain of Abbots: Afterwards, arising to the Honour of an Abbot, I favoured my Fellow-Abbots, but ceased not to reprehend Bishops. And, lastly, when I was a Bishop myself, I began to see how much easier a thing it is to find faults than to mend them.  
3. But, I must not leave him the advantage to glory, by omitting the due consideration of the huge Force of two ancient Canons, which he begins his notable Charge withal, and makes the Foundation of it: They are these.  
Sint autem solliciti frequentèr interest Capitulis per singulos Decanatus in quibus diligenter instruant Sacerdotes. Again, Archidiaconi Capitulis per singulos Decanatus frequenter intersint, in quibus diligentèr instruant Sacerdotes.  
Whence he concludes, that because the archdeacon doth not observe these Canons, he ought not to expect Procuration.  
But why did he not put these Canons into English, with his usual Accents? Was it, because he understood not the meaning of Capitulis interest? Or for another Reason, because then every one would have decern'd the impertinence of his Application?  
Now these Canons concern the Arch-Deacon's Visitation, or not: If not, they are nothing to the purpose; if they do, the present Law, as he himself seems to acknowledge, must set Bounds to their Obligation; and though they have the word [ frequentèr], yet they can neither oblige nor warrant the archdeacon to visit the Clergy above once a Year, contrary to Law.  
Indeed, the Dean R. is bound to visit them, Ecclesiatim, twice a Year; and to instruct and admonish: Though, by the way, this bold Visitor, who was Dean R. last Year, may do well to remember, how he observed his Duty, by despising his Office, and confronting his Right Reverend Diocesan, even in his Visitation.  
Let us observe the End of the Injunction, as 'tis expressed in both those Canons, Instruant Sacerdotes, they go no farther. Now, if the Reason of these Laws be removed, is it not unreasonable to press their Obligation with the same strictness as formerly?  
The Canons were made when Priestly Ignorance and Blockishness, as well as Profaneness, called aloud for Instruction. But, blessed be God, we have generally a Learned, Knowing, and Pious Clergy. The archdeacon confesseth to be true what this Man thinks, that many of the Inferior Clergy are as deserving( if not more) of the Dignity as himself; and, thanks God, he generally hears Excellent Sermons at his Visitations, far better, he thinks, without Vanity, than he could make himself; however, as often as the Law allows him to visit, he endeavours to instruct the Priests, his Brethren, as well as he can.  
4. But why not per singulos Decanatus?  
Sol. There are five accustomend Places, the most convenient in the Arch-Deaconry, approved by the Successive Bishops, time out of mind. Which words [ approved by the Bishop] the Visitor, very honestly, no doubt, omits, in his recital of the Canon,( of 1603, Can. 125.) at which his Visitation and Courts are generally held: Thither the Clergy are every Year duly summoned. Thither, no one ever refused to come, but our Visitor; and though some of them live not in the Deanery, where they are to attend, may not they be instructed, thus appearing, by the archdeacon, as well as their Brethren of the same Deanery? And is not the End of these Canons then obtained? and what would he have more?  
Besides, the Wardens have Books of Articles given them for every Deanery; and the Ministers respectively instructed to assist them, as to their Presentments; and if they do not Present, nor the Minister,( as before) and no Reformation do proceed, the Fault must lye where in truth it is.  
Besides, 'tis with thankfulness acknowledged by the rest of the Clergy, and Laity, that the archdeacon doth ordinarily, shortly after his Visitation, keep his Court at a convenient Place, within the Deanery wherein our Visitor resides, when he is at Home, for the ease of that side of the Country.  
The Sum is, That the Pope's legates Canons, signify not much in England; if neither Acts of Parliament, nor Consent or Usage of the People of England have confirmed, and made them Laws, as the known Statute of Hen. 8. remonstrates; and for what I can see, Consuetudo, in this case also, is a rub in his way: And while the archdeacon Visits at such Places as are convenient in themselves, and established for that purpose by constant Custom, and approved by the Bishop for the Time being, according to our own Protestant Canon, and visits there as often as the Law permits him, and as often as he Visits, endeavours to assist his Brethren the best he can, with his Advice and Instructions,( which he neither denies them at any other time, when any of his Brethren desire it of him) he need not be troubled with Old Otho's Canons, or Othobon's repetition of them.  
Thus the Foundation being weak, all his Invectives built upon it, and continued through at least forty Pages, tend much to Edification: But the Mercury in his Brains will Salivate, till the prepared Virulency be all spit out.  
5. Thus far upon a Supposition, that those Ancient Canons concerned the Arch-Deacon's ordinary Visitations: but if they do not concern such Visitations, how impertinently are they forced to serve his Covetous Design to save his Procurations, which, he saith, are due only ratione Visitationis.  
Now, 'tis so evident from the very Reason of the Thing, and from the Places where he finds these Canons in Lindwood, that these Canons did not concern the Arch-Deacon's ordinary Visitations: that if this critic did not observe it, it must be for want of Sense; but if he did, and yet boldly urge them contrary to their purpose, where was his Conscience?  
The Reasons demonstrating that these Canons did not concern ordinary Visitations, are these;  
1. From the gloss upon the word [ frequentèr][ indeterminate loquitur], which cannot agree with ordinary Visitations; for Lindwood himself tells us, They are determined; and that they are to be held but once a Year. Vid. de Arcd.  
'Tis further added, Intellige quoties opus erit, juxta Arbitriu mboni viri. So that the Canon makes the judgement of a good archdeacon, if such a one there may happen to be, how often he will go to instruct his Clergy: but the Law limits his ordinary Visitation to once a Year; and if Procurations are payable at every such Visitation, our Visitor will judge it often enough.  
2. But he gives us yet clearer Evidence; for the Gloss observes, there was no money to be paid or required for the Arch-Deacon's Visits, according to these Canons, which he knows is otherwise at his ordinary Visitations, viz. Procurations.  
3. Therefore, it is there farther said, That this Constitution, perrarò Servatur; even then, for our Visitor, and his Brother E. H's beloved Reason, because no money was to be paid. But he very well knows, that Visitations were and are constantly observed, and no doubt they will say, for the contrary Reason.  
3. Again, the Author remarks, that this practise, quandoque per Decanos Rurales, did formerly belong to the Dean Rural, who, yet we know, had never Authority out of his own Deanery; and consequently, could never Visit as the archdeacon is bound to do.  
4. Besides, the Reason of the Canon being removed, as we observed before, and our Clergy well instructed, and wiser, as this Man thinks, than their Teacher; who better understands our rubric, than those ancient blockish Priests did their Mass, or the Substance of the Sacraments, for their better instruction, wherein this Canon was made and repeated, as we find in the words of it; I say, the Reason of it ceasing, there is no Reason for the continuance of it, especially seeing the End of those Canons are supposed, by the Law, to be sufficiently answered by our Annual Visitations.  
5. But where will our Visitor find the Capitula Ruralia? and if there be neither Reason nor Place for such Instructions, to what End is the Canon? Indeed, if we heed the duty of the Dean Rural, who by Custom is to Admonish and Present the Clergy that will not Reform, the substance of that Ancient Office seems devolved upon him again; but however, there can be nothing plainer, than that these Ancient Canons concern not the ordinary Visitation of the archdeacon, q. E. D.  
He saith, p. 6. If those Passages ( meaning these Canons) had been well observed and regarded, your Libel, I suppose,( by which you claim to be paid for what you never did) had been omitted; i. e. you would never have insisted upon the payment of Procurations. And, I say, had he made Conscience, either of being Just or True; or been careful to observe, either his Author, or his Duty, he had never created so much trouble to himself, or others; or struck so Fanatically at all the Arch-Deacons of the Church of England, through the innocent Sides of his own. Are they not without understanding, that work Wickedness? Thy Tongue imagineth Wickedness: thou hast loved to speak all words that may do hurt; O thou false Tongue. Psal. 52.53.   

SECT. II.  
SEcondly; Having found him not very lucky hitherto, let us see whether he is any thing more happy in his other great Charge, which he loads the archdeacon with in above Twenty Pages together, that he signally framed the Indictment against him; that he indicted him: And that after the Certiorari, he did get a Procedendo to bring the Matter back again, &c. from pag. 53, to pag. 67.  
Now, though to deny the Matter of Fact, is more than the archdeacon owes his malapert visitor; as to question his Merit of the Indictment, is short of the Duty he owes to the Honourable Bench, and the Body of the County: Yet to stigmatize the Assurance and Honesty of daring Malice, the Truth shall out.  
Now the plain and very Truth is this, That the archdeacon had neither Hand nor Head in the whole Matter; he neither knew the Time when, nor the Person by whom the Indictment was made: he was never so much as consulted with about it; he never heard it red, or saw it, before he saw it in his bitter and revengeful Representation of it in his Book: neither was he at any time upon the Bench, though he had liberty enough to be there, when this Matter or this Person was in the least mentioned.  
If this be true, what Brass must the Man wear, that shall so directly downright, without Condition, or the least hesitancy, publicly in print, charge upon the archdeacon this Indictment, and treat him so scurrilously, and so vilely represent him to the World, as he thinks, for it, throughout so many Pages, upon his own ungoverned more Imagination, without any ground at all.  
For a Priest thus publicly to impeach his superior, with a false Accusation, when there was a way open to have known the Truth, in a Matter too be judged highly Criminal, I will not say it renders him Falsariam in the Civil and Canon Law, yet I must say, 'tis an unchristian and inhuman Violation of Two great Commandments, the Fifth as well as the Ninth.  
2. To pled, he presumed it was so, comes too late to excuse him. Did he first inquire into the matter or not? If not, it was certainly, at least, Evil Surmise, and Rash judgement; which are Sins in themselves, and add rather to, than any way extenuate the Slander.  
If he did inquire? the Return was, That the archdeacon did so indite him, or he did not: If the former, which is contrary to the Truth, I pity him, that he hath no Friend left to give him true Information: But if he was  told who the Person was, and that it was not the archdeacon; what Impudence as well as Calumny clogs the falsehood he first wilfully conceived, and now glories in!  
3. If he yet shall sneak and say, he presumed it, without enquiry, because he thought he had ground so to do: His only Ground must be this, because he had vilified the archdeacon in his former Book. Now that very Reason makes it a more Presumption, and the falsehood yet inexcusable: for though he had spitefully enough treated the archdeacon in that Book, yet he could not but know, he had there said nothing of him that was matter of an Indictment; but that he had cast a great deal more of his Dirt upon many others, that were far above the archdeacon, and more deservedly offended, and fitter both by Place and Concern to cause him to be indicted, than the archdeacon. This he must needs be sensible of: but his Province of Spire and Revenge in this new Piece was to persecute the archdeacon above any body else; and that's all that can be said for him in this matter.  
Now what Reward shall be given or done unto thee, thou false Tongue? Thou hast loved Unrighteousness more than Goodness, and to talk of Lies more than Righteousness. He flattereth himself in his own sight, till his abominable Sin be found out: the Words of his Mouth are unrighteous and full of Deceit. If he had found the archdeacon to have made the least Trip, thus would he have stormed; but I spare him.  
For, not to be able to speak forth the Words either of Truth or Soberness, is a degree of Madness. Otherwise it is hard to be imagined that the Man, while he was pleased with the Patron, should first give it under his Hand, that the Patron's Right to present was unquestionable; and that he could prove it by authentic Evidences of above an hundred Years standing; and yet afterwards, when angry, writ to the same Patron, that his Title to the Same was nought; Literae Scriptae manent.   

SECT. III.  
THirdly; He will try his Fortune with the archdeacon once more; and here he visits with a Rod indeed. Let me( saith he, page. 48.) in the next place reckon with you about your late Prevarication and breach of Promise, bearing date from December 15, 1687. on the Morning of which Day, &c. when you were  told the Book should be suppressed, if the Persons concerned in the Contents of it, would make the Author Satisfaction; which as soon as you heard, you promised to be instrumental in procuring it; next to give me notice by yourself immediately of what should be offered or might be expected.  
Answ. In answer for the archdeacon, that here is some Truth indeed, but spoiled in the Account. 'Tis true, he came to the Arch-Deacon's House, and to him made heavy complaints of his Poverty, and some hard Usage, as he pretended from two Persons especially, whom he had bespattered sufficiently in the said Book. Withal, he assured the Arch Deacon he was so poor, that if he should die in that Condition, he had not five Pounds apiece to leave to his many Children,( two such Portions at least, I believe he hath thrown away, upon the two worthy Brats of his teeming Brain.) Hereupon the archdeacon did really, and in earnest,( whatever he suggests to the contrary) pity him, and did intimate to him, that as to the money due to him for Procurations for the time past, he needed not to trouble himself; provided he did nothing to prejudice Succession. And, after much Discourse, he well remembers, that this Visitor did promise to leave the business of his Procurations to the archdeacon himself; and also, as he confesseth, to suppress that Book, if the Persons whom he had principally offended in it, would show him any Kindness, considering his Condition, &c. The archdeacon hereupon, merely out of his Kindness to him, and pure Compassion, did, upon those two Conditions,( that he would leave the matter of the Procurations to the archdeacon himself, and also wholly suppress that scandalous Book according to his Promise) promise him those two things: First, To speak to those Persons( he knows who I mean) to take him as an Object of Pity, and to show him some Kindness, as there might be occasion, he promising to suppress his Book. Secondly, And the archdeacon did also promise( i.e. e. upon those two Conditions still) to give him an account by Letter, what Success he was like to have.  
2. But now, why did not the archdeacon perform his Promise?  
For the first Branch of it, he expressly acknowledgeth the archdeacon did speedily and joyfully perform it, though 'tis expressed in a manner like himself; Then like a Man overjoyed, you posted away to Philargyrus, &c. page. 48. The Truth is, the archdeacon did hasten to do him all the Kindness he could, did forthwith go to both the offended Persons, did hearty pled for some Pity and Favour for him: But those Persons knew him better than the archdeacon did; and he could prevail nothing on his behalf: yea, what he said and suffered for him too, this Visitor deserves not to know.  
3. But why did not the archdeacon give him an account hereof by his Letter, as he promised? He may know so much, that the archdeacon did writ a Letter for him, and intended to sand it to him; but it being known and seen to be too much in Favour of him, the Truth is, the archdeacon was dissuaded, and even forbidden to sand it, or to have any thing to do with him, with assurance, that what a Man should either writ to him, or discourse, might be made more public than he would have it, which is hereby sufficiently verified.  
However, the archdeacon did acquaint his Friend( who also knows the Truth of all that is here said) with what the archdeacon thought was fit for him to know upon the whole Matter, who did acquaint him with it accordingly,( which was all that he desired of the archdeacon;) and he acknowledgeth the Receipt of a Letter to that purpose, dated( so punctual is the Man) Dec. 21.87.  
Here is an account of the Arch-Deacon's Promise; but where is the Prevarication?  
The Arch-Deacon's Promises were made,( as he himself confesseth) upon Conditions. Were not those Conditions promised by our Visitor? especially, that for the suppressing his egregious Pamphlet? Did he perform his Promise? Did he not most shamefully break his Faith? His Promise, at least, must signify the suspending of the publication of the Book. Did he do this? Far from it: The Bookseller is in being, who received an Order from him to fetch a great many of those Books, in order to sell or publish them,( if any thought them worth their money or Time). Did he call in this Order, or require this Bookseller to suspend the Execution of it for any time, till he knew whether any Kindness would be shewed him, or not? Which was the least that ought to have been done by him, for the keeping his Word, or saving himself from the Reflection of Prevarication.  
Farther, we have heard of many of these Pamphlets which his own Hand scattered, but never of one that he endeavoured to recover or call in again, to save his Word and Credit.  
But I must complain with the Psalmist; If he come to see me, he speaketh Vanity; and his Heart conceiveth falsehood within himself; and when he cometh forth, he telleth it. Psal. 41.6. For now, considering what the archdeacon did, in pursuance of his Promise; and what this Visitor did not, in performance of his; and how thereby, the Ground and Condition, upon this Visitor's own reckoning, the Obligation upon the Arch Deacon was wholly vacated.  
And, lastly, considering that this Visitor hath, under his Hand, pag. 49. signified, That he was assured it was not the archdeacon, but another bungling Ignoramus that spoiled all. Pray, where lies the Prevarication? How, or which way appeared the Arch-Deacon's drawn Sword? Or, in short, to apply his own Words, Where are the Hard Things, or the Malice without Success? that is, What's become of his Faith and Charity? Their own Tongues shall make them fall, insomuch that whoso feeth them, shall laugh them to scorn. Psal. 46.8.   

SECT. IV.  
HItherto we have viewed his Picture in some eminent stroke or Shadows of it: And so far it highly deserves the Name at first given it, the Picture of Ill-Luck.  
We shall briefly observe, that the whole management of both his doughty Books is unlucky enough.  
The Paint and Colours of his plain dealing are laid so thin, that one may see all the Corruption and Rottenness that is under them. He hath, indeed, put on a fine Cloak, but his foul Fingers have made such Holes in it, that every Body sees through it, and discerns it to be a very Cloak of Maliciousness; and his Folly, as well as his Wrath, is made manifest to all Men.  
The Malice of the Worm is apparent; But where was his Wit and Cunning? What! could he not have put on a demure Countenance, and reproved and lashed his Betters; but he must needs tell the World, in print, That the Cause of all his Zeal was nothing but Revenge?  
Yet, thus it is, he that runs through his Books, may red and be satisfied, under his own Hand, that he glories in his shane; giving his own account of the whole Matter and Design of both his Books, as in short followeth.  
1. Because his Honourable Patron, who given him a Competent Living before, denied him another,( in his own Time and Way) he so vilely reflected both upon his said Patron and his Lady.  
2. Because the Clerk, whom the Patron thought more worthy of the Recotory, would not refuse it, that our Visitor might have it, he treats him with all the Scurrility his little Wit and unmeasurable Malice could invent.  
3. Because his Bishop would not assist him against the Patron and the Clerk, in that unjust, and ambitious, and covetous Design of his, we see with what Accusations and Billingsgate-Stuff he pursues him.  
4. Because that the Bishop's Counsel, and some of the Justices of the Peace, called him to an account for his affronting his Diocesan; you may red, if you have patience, with what villainous and black Characters he hath signalized every one of them.  
5. Lastly, Because the archdeacon would not relinquish his Right in his Procurations, to the prejudice of his Successor; that very thing hath drawn out all the Foam and Venom against him, in this added to what he had spitishly vented in his former Piece.  
This is the Person that thinks himself sufficiently provoked to be another Salvian, or St. Bernard, or Savonarola, to correct Manners, and reform the World.  
Is not such a Criminal fit to be an Accuser, a Witness, and judge of his Superiors? Let him rather lick up the Choler he hath vomited, and eat his own Dung, I mean, his foul words, wherewith he hath so shamefully polluted himself and his Profession. A Man must have abundance of Charity for him, that can forbear to think, that he hath renounced his Christianity, and given himself to the Service of the Devil, in evil-speaking, lying, and slandering.  
Let him put up all his borrowed Artillery into their Common-place again, till he hath a better Cause to employ them, and at present be quiet, and satisfied with this, That notwithstanding all his impertinent and insolent Cant, those bubbles of his Pride, and swelling words of Vanity, the Law must at last determine the Question about the Right of Procurations, and the Places of Visitations, wherein he hath given so many signs of fear, that he shall have Ill-luck indeed.  
Now I shall conclude, with a word of serious advice to him, which, for his real good, I wish in earnest he would follow.  
'Tis plain, his Disease is a Canker, and he may find in old lily an excellent and proper Recipe for that Distemper; which I hearty, as a Friend, commend to him: 'tis this, sort tuâ contentus abi.  
If this be too weak, I advice him to that somewhat stronger and of better Authority: Psal. 37.8. Leave off from Wrath, and let go Displeasure: fret not thyself, else shalt thou be moved to do Evil: or, as in the other Translation, in any wise to do Evil.  
If the Distemper be yet stubborn, I must use sharpness, and apply the Corrosive the Apostle once gave to a Man, that had published, that he himself was some Great One; and that, right or wrong, he would have a Spiritual Living, &c. Repent therefore of this thy Wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine Heart may be forgiven thee; for I perceive, that thou art in the gull of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity, Act. 8.9, 19, to 24.  
VALE.  
FINIS.