[ 186] Not to censure others, but look to our selves.
SOcrates,* 1.1 at a banquet, falling at odds with one of his familiars, and openly rebu∣king him, Plato could not hold, but said unto him, How much better had this been spoken privately? And had you not done better to have told me so privately? quoth Socrates. Plato could see Socrates's fault of unseasonable reprehension, but his own he could not perceive.* 1.2 Thus, look but amongst such as call themselves holy brethren, but indeed, rank Protestants, devout dissemblers, and you shall finde, that they are not halfe so forward in examining themselves, as in finding fault with other; and they are not halfe so curious in their own,* 1.3 as they are captious and cruell over other mens lives; they can readily accuse others of blacknesse, and spirituall defor∣mities, saying, They are wicked, he is naught, they are Antichristian, rotten-hearted, &c. such a one hath a Pope in his belly:* 1.4 when at the same time, they have but little (God knowes) of Christ in their hearts: They can gaze at the mo••e in their bro∣ther's eye, but care not for pulling out the beam that is in their own sight: They can∣not bear with a few infirmities of their brethren, no not of their fathers; but their own fowl enormities they can easily conceal and continue.