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Character 67. Of a timerous Disposition. Made Anno 1657.
HE is onely for facile and easie things▪ and if you employ him not in what he is good for, he is good for nothing. He is a•• un∣fit for dangerous Negotiations, as a London Wher••y for an East India Voyage, and dares not offend the present Authority for his life. He is not Cavalier enough, to understand your Gallantry of dying; nor Divine, nor Philosoph••r enough, to know what good he can do wh••n he is dead. Like the slavish Americans, he of∣fers as much Incense to those who may harm him, as those who can do him good. Mean time, sacrificing more out of Fear then Love, he is but half an Idolater at least. Whence in times of Trouble and Persecution, he pretends not so much to Merit as Excuse; and though he be far from a Rubrick Saint himself, yet at least he honours those who are; and hopes to be saved by others merits, though not his own,