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CHAP. IX. Concerning Superstition: answere to 64.65.66.67.68. of the Preface.
* 1.1BEhold a new crime (O yee Iudges!) and unheard of be∣fore this day: These who hould the reliques of Popish confessed superstition, unlawfull, are (in that very name) indited of superstition. Nay they must be content to have it for their solemne style, in publique writings, for so Dr. Morton hath dubbed them (To his superstitious brethren the non-conformists) and Dr. Burges will maintaine it. If any man take it ill, and say, that such a title doth rather beseeme those, which allow of reli∣gious holy water, images, circumcision &c. besyde crosses and surplices (as these two Drs doe,) hee is straight way scur∣lous: But let us inquire into the Inditement.
1. It was noted by the Replyer as a ridiculous peece of Rhe∣thoricke,* 1.2 and a trick of prevention, usuall with crafty men. The Rej. answereth these two titles suite not well, and the charge is weightye: which is very true, they suite not well, neither, to them they were intended unto, nor yet, betwixt themselves, and the charge of superstition, if it be in good earnest and upon ground, is weightye: But not well suting, do meet often times in affected ac∣cusations, and so doe here ridiculous Rhetorick, and crafti∣nesse: Shee that hasted, to call her party whore, in the be¦ginning of their scoulding fray, for feare she should be prevented, with that salutation, as more deserving it,