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CHAP. II. (Book 2)
The conditions requisite to Secrecy,
The use of it in the Matter of speech,
either
By- Fables of the Heathen.
- Parables of Scripture.
(Book 2)
TO the exactnesse of Secrecy in any way of discourse, there are these two qualifications requi∣site.
1. That it be difficult to be un∣folded, if it should bee doubted of, or examined.
2. That it be (if possible) altoge∣ther devoid of suspicion; for so far as it is liable to this, it may be said to come short in the very Nature of Secrecy; since what is once suspe∣cted, is exposed to the danger of exa∣mination, & in a ready way to be dis∣covered: but if not, yet a man is more likely to be disappointed in his