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THE TELL-TROTHS REQVITALL.
Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
THe best cause findes not alwayes the best patronage: neither area 1.1 good Ministers alwaies blest with the affections of their hearers. Some brood of Ismael (of a currish nature) like churlish Nabal, never wanted the quips of enmity, against the Ho∣ly Truth. For was it ever knowne, that there was a time wherein Stum∣bling-blockes were not laid in the walks of Truth? who ever told the Truth, and was not (with Paul) accounted an Enemy for it?
If John will needs twit Herod for keeping his brother Phi∣lips wife, off goes his head for it: his Sermon's now no lon∣ger accepted: he tells the Truth, and hee smarts for it. If Christ once begin to blow up the skirts of the Scribes and Pharises, and broach their hypocriticall outward lines to the view of the world; then straight a confederacy against him; he must be put to death, and that for telling the Truth. A∣mos must not be too busie in the Kings Court; if he be, hee is bid, Avant; and quickly made ware, that tis the Kings Chappell: he must away, and eate his bread in Iudah. Nor may