Sect. 1.
HE proceeds [It followeth necessarily, when they that have the government of Religion shall come to have either the wisdome of those men, their sincerity,* 1.1 or their love suspected.] Let us pause a little upon this Phrase (those men) it is a most ambiguous Relative, if it relate to the man on whom they beleeved, as before, as it seems to doe, thus it must be, that the Governours of the Church suspect those men whose credit was an Argument to form the Religion; but that cannot be, for the suspicion of the Governour, and his lack of assurance, doth not necessarily introduce a doubt in the Religion; because few Govern¦ours dare discover their own doubts, and their suspicion is seldome an infectious evil, or, if so, yet not Epedemi∣call, unlesse countenanced and assisted by the Sword; but although the words doe import a suspicion in those Governours, yet h••s meaning is, that the Governours own wisdom, integrity, &c. are suspected, as it is evident by the following words [Or that they shall be unable to shew any probable token of divine Revelation] this cannot be spoken of the first instruments in the forming Religi∣on, because God confirmed their Doctrine with Mira∣cles every where; it must therefore be understood of the Governours to whom this Religion is committed, but how harshly, in Common language, that Relative (those men) will be applyed to these Governours, may easily appeare to any man who reads it; well: his Con∣clusion is, that they, the Governours being suspected, the