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 storme. But, My Lord, hereafter I will begin to believe, that one may be wiser then many; that Judgement and good parts may pierce deeper into the Recesses of truth, then much buzling Industry, and that the serious consideration of one person, does more then the superficiall Chop-logick even of some Committees: I will henceforth admire your Lordships Courage, who, like Athanasius, was Orthodox, when the whole world was Heretick; And that with the gale of your own single reason, you could stem the current of a whole Country. My Lord, I shall ever admire your Justice, that could carry you to right a person whom so many laboured to wrong, and that could be obliged more by the Doctors ordinary respects, then those who defamed him, were by his eminent Services. My Lord, your Charity was very great, In that (although he were guilty) you did with so many handsome Anodyne Reasons on his behalf, temper their fury who inclined to Sir Hierome, and preserve impartiality in them, who were to be the Doctors Judges. My Lord, How could you resist the common contagion