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1 That the imbecillity of our natural dispositions tainted through the first Mans sinne with curiosity, inconstancie, and negligence, is the prime cause of the spirit of Detraction.
2 That our curious search after the supernaturall begin∣ning of time, worketh our confusion.
3 Of our Curiosity.
4 Of our Inconstancie.
5 And of cur Negligence.
1 That ill Education is another cause of malicious De∣traction.
2 That want of maintenance in the Clergy, is the cause of ill Education.
3 Certaine moderne abuses taxed in some remote an∣gles of this Kingdome.
1 That the secret and spirituall suggestion of the Diuel, is the third cause of the Spirit of Detraction.
2 The cunning reasons of the Diuell to confirme sinne.
3 Their Confutation.
1 The naturall manner, how the Spirit of Detraction enters into a man and possesseth him.
2 Another reason to confirme the premisses.
1 That the spirit of Detraction hath two principall instruments, the Hand and the Tongue.
2 Their apish trickes.
3 Their monstrous effects.
4 A briefe dehortation from Detraction.
1 The Authors censure of certaine English Pamphle∣ters, and Ballad-writers, with an inuocation to my Lord of Canterbury for a reformation, not onely of these abuses in writing, but also of other enormities committed against the Church-Canons.
2 A Description of good and euill Writers.
3 That there is a mixt morall kinde of writing, seruing as the lesser light for the conuersion of the naturall man.
1 Certaine Detractions of our common Stage-players are taxed.
2 How God distributes his gifts diuersly to euery parti∣cular man.
3 The Authours briefe Apologie concerning his owne imprinted workes.
1 What kinde of persons the spirit of Detraction doth soonest possesse: with a description of the common people.
2 That wise men and of resolution must not feare the Detractions of the common people.
3 That it is necessarie for Enuie to be the companion of Vertue, and for the spirit of Detraction to follow Magi∣strates, as the shadow the body for the corroborating of their vertues.
1 Why men soiourne with the spirit of Detraction, and will not be dislodged from him.
2 That no worldly causes ought to dispose a man vnto Detraction.
1 The Conclusion, shewing that all persons from the Prince his Scepter, to the Coblers naule, are subiect to De∣tracting tongues.