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 touch't in any such manner upon one party, I have done the like upon all, intending no spleen in this discourse against either; I hope the ingenuous of each will no more blame me for striking my Enemies through them, then they would do for striking the sleeve which clothes the arme, I would beat. Those Versipelles, Sankey and Worsly, have shrouded themselves under all parties, and have done scurvy acts in order to advance every rising interest; I could not therefore hit these vermin without beating the severall bushes wherein they skulk't.

Moreover, as to some Expressions you find fault with, viz. (a) Religion-traders, &c. Is there any thing more abominable then those that make Religion a Trade, living onely upon their turning and winding with this and thother Church?

2ly, Do you think there are not such? Not swarmes of such? Were there not such as made Merchandize of the Gospel in the Apostles time? Were not such condemned then? Where then is my fault, in mentioning such with a kind of contempt? I would have it known I contemn such; and that I do not fear the consequences of