Truth beloved in the generall, but not in the particular. [ 944]
AS the Fryer wittily told the People,* 1.1 that the Truth he then preached unto them, seemed to be like Holy-water, which every one called for a pace; yet when it came to be cast upon them, they turned aside their face as though they did not like it. Just so it is that almost every Man calls fast for Truth, commends Truth, nothing will down but Truth, yet they cannot endure to have it cast in their faces;* 1.2 They love Truth in universali, when it onely pleads it selfe, and shewes it self, but they cannot abide it in particulari, when it presses upon them, and shewes them themselves; they love it lucentem, but hate it redarguentem; they would have it shine out unto all the world in its glory, but by no means so much as peep out to reprove their own errors.