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 for if his body were neglected, it is like that his languishing soule being disquieted by his diseasefull body, would utterly refuse and loath all spiritual] comfort; but if bis body were first recured, and broght to good frame, should there not then be found best time, to recover the soule also? So it is in the state of a real me: Therefore (as I said) it is expedient, first to settle such a course of government there, as thereby both civill disorders and ecclesiasticall abuses may he reformed and amended, whereto needeth not any such great distance of times, as (you suppose) I require, but onejoynt resolution for both, that each might second and confirm the other.

Eudox. That we shall see when we come thereunto; in the meane time I conceive thus much, as you have delivered, touching the generall fault, which you suppose in religion, to wit, that it is popish; but doe you finde no particular abuses therein, nor in the ministers thereof?

Iren. Yes verily; for what ever disorders you see in the Church of England, yec may finde there, and many more: Namely, grosse simony, greedy covctousnesse, fleshly iucontinency, carelesse sloath, and generally all disordered life in the common clergy-man: And besides all these, they have their particular enormityes; for all Irish priests, which now injoy the church livings, they are in a manner meere laymen, saving that they have taken holy orders, but