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CHAPTER I. G. B. his designe, & disposition when he writ this Booke: of the wickednesse of the world.
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He that increaseth knowledge, incraseth sorrow, is an ob∣servation which holdeth true of no part of knowledge, so much as of the knowledge of mankind: it is some relief to him, who knows nothing of foreigne wickednesse, to hope there are other nations where in vertu is honoured, & Religion is in esteeme, which allays his regrates when he sees Vice, & Im∣piety abound in his country; but if by travelling or reading, he enlarge his Ho∣rizon, & know mankind better, his regrates will grow, when he finds the whole world lyes in wickednesse.
ANSWER. We neede not travell, or read much, to know, that the whole world lyes in wickednesse: Seing those are the words of the beloyed disciple, 1. Jo. 5.19. This is in∣deed