patience, their exhausted estates, and dayly alarms proclaime, there is no true peace, no honest and just; no safe and secure peace, which indeed is not to be expected, while such Witch-crafts are impo∣sed, and such wicked purposes partially and vio∣lently promoted, utterly to deceive, undo, and destroy a people; which brings me to the fourth particular.
§. Fourthly, The 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, lye or fallacy, which the Spirit of God by way of Irony expresseth, they have healed, thus they pretend and brag: but slightly (〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 super leve, ut leviculum, tan∣quam rem nihili, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, LXX. despicientes, vili-pedentes: cum illusione, Syr. cum ignominia, verbis mendaciorum suorum, Chald.) Thus Trans∣laters and interpreters, render the word variously, but to the same sence, arguing the little respect of piety, honesty, equity, and charity, or humanity, which was in these vaine glorious and ungracious healers, who either wanted skill, or will, or power and influence, or due authority, or they were slight∣ers and contemners of the publiques health, one∣ly intent to their private wealth and advanta∣ges.
§. They never searched the bottom of the Na∣tions great crying sins, disorders and sufferings, nor applied seasonable, just and meet remedies to either; yea they festred and enflamed the lighter hurts, to greivous ulcers, small faults, offences, mis∣takes, differences, and jealousies, which did arise in Church and State, they either dressed these scratches