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I Leave this now, and on with him [Others (saith he) that allow, for a Law of Nature, the keeping of Faith, doe neverthelesse make exception of certaine persons, as hereticks &c.] I condemn this with him, but doe not ap∣prove his reason for it, which is [If any fault of a man be sufficient to discharge our Covenant made, the same ought in reason to have been sufficient to have hindred the ma∣king of it.] I allow not this answer,* 1.1 because it destroye's that supposition, upon which it was grounded, which is that men have made a Covenant; now the question is, whether that Covenant may lawfully be broke; this is no satisfaction, to say, that there was the same reason not to make the Covenant, as to breake it, for both may be amisse, to make it rashly, and to break it rashly; and one may be well, another ill; as to covenant to doe any honest thing, the Covenant was good, the breach ill; So likewise the Covenant may be ill, and the breach good, as in those examples before instanced in; not as it is a 〈…〉〈…〉 of ••aith but of that wicked bond; nay▪ I can shew