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to promote the common good, whether it be by deviing any thing ourelves, or reviing that which hath been laboured by others, deerveth certainly much repect and eteem, but yet findeth but cold entertainment in the world. It is welcomed with upicion intead of love, and with emulation in tead of thanks: and if there be any hole left for cavil to enter, (and cavil, if it do not find an hole, will make one) it is ure to be micontrued, and in danger to be condemned. This will eaily be granted by as many as know tory, or have any experience. For was there ever any thing projected, that avoured any way of newnes or renewing, but the ame endured many a torm of gainaying or oppoition? A man would think that civility, wholeome laws, learning and eloquence, ynods, and Churchmaintenance, (that we peak of no more things of this kind) hould be as afe as a anctuary, and || out of hot, as they ay, that no man would lift up his heel, no, nor dog move his tongue againt the motioners of them. For by the firt we are ditinguished from brute beats led with enuality: by the econd we are bridled and retrained from outrageous behaviour, and from doing of injuries, whether by fraud or by violence: by the third we are enabled to inform and reform others by the light and feeling that we have attained unto ourelves: briefly, by the fourth, being brought together to a parley face to face, we ooner compoe our differences, than by writings, which are endles: and latly, that the Church be ufficiently provided for is o agreeable to good reaon and concience, that thoe mothers are holden to be les cruel, that kill their children as oon as they are born, than thoe nuring fathers and mothers, (whereoever they be) that withdraw from them who hang upon their breats (and upon whoe breats again themelves do hang to receive the piritual and incere milk of the word) livelihood and upport fit for their etates. Thus it is apparent, that thee things which we peak of are of mot neceary ue, and therefore that none, either without aburdity can peak againt them, or without note of wickednes can purn againt them.

Yet for all that, the learned know, that certain worthy men have been brought to untimely death for none other fault, but for eeking to reduce their countrymen to good order and dicipline: And that in ome Commonweals it was made a capital crime, once to motion the making of a new law for the abrogating of an old, though the ame were mot pernicious: And that certain, which would be counted pillars of the State, and patterns of virtue and prudence, could not be brought for a long time to give way to good letters and refined peech, but bare themelves as avere from them, as from rocks or boxes of poion: And fourthly, that he was no babe, but a great Clerk, that gave forth (and in writing to remain to poterity) in paion peradventure, but yet he gave forth, That he had not een any profit to come by any ynod or meeting of the Clergy, but rather the contrary: And latly, againt Churchmaintenance and allowance, in uch ort as the ambaadors and meengers of the great King of Kings hould be furnihed, it is not unknown what a fiction or fable (o it is eteemed, and for no better by the reporter himelf, though upertitious) was devied: namely, That at uch time as the profeors and teachers of Chritianity in the Church of Rome, then a true Church, were liberally endowed, a voice forooth was heard from heaven, aying, Now is poion poured down into the Church, &c. Thus not only as oft as we peak, as one aith, but alo as oft as we do anything of note or conequence, we ubject ourelves to everyone's cenure, and happy is he that is leat toed upon tongues; for utterly to ecape the natch of them it is impoible. If any man conceit, that this is the lot and portion of the meaner ort only, and that Princes are privileged by their high etate, he is deceived. As the word devoureth as well one as another, as it is in Samuel; nay, as the great commander charged his oldiers in a certain battle to trike at no part of the enemy, but at the face; and as the king of Syria commanded his chief captains to fight neither with mall nor great, ave only againt the king of Irael: o it is too true, that envy triketh mot pitefully at the fairet, and the chiefet. David was a worthy prince, and no man to be compared to him for his firt deeds; and yet for as worthy an act as ever he did, even for bringing back the ark of God in olemnity, he was corned and coffed at by his own wife. Solomon was greater than David, though not in virtue, yet in power; and by his power and widom he built a temple to the Lord, uch an one as was the glory of the land of Irael, and the wonder of the whole world. But was that his magnificence liked of by all? We doubt of it. Otherwie why do they lay it in his on's dih, and call unto him for † eaing of the burden? Make, ay they, the grievous ervitude of thy father, and his ore yoke, lighter. Belike he had charged them with ome levies, and troubled them with ome carriages; hereupon they raie up a tragedy, and wih in their heart the temple had never been built. So hard a thing it is to pleae all, even when we pleae God bet, and do eek to approve ourelves to every one's concience.

If we will decend to latter times, we hall find many the like examples of uch kind, or rather unkind, acceptance. The firt Roman Emperor did never do a more pleaing deed to the learned, nor more profitable to poterity, for conerving the record of times in true upputation, than when he corrected the Calendar, and ordered the year according to the coure of the un: and yet this was imputed to him for novelty, and arrogancy, and procured to him great obloquy. So the firt Chritened Emperor (at the leat wie, that openly profeed the faith himelf, and allowed others to do the like,) for trengthening the empire at his great charges, and providing for the Church, as he did, got for his labour the name Pupillus, as who would ay, a wateful Prince, that had need of a guardian or overeer. So the bet Chritened Emperor, for the love that he bare unto peace,  thereby to enrich both himelf and his ubjects, and becaue he did not eek war, but find it, was judged to be no man at arms, (though indeed he excelled in feats of chivalry, and hewed o