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, discontentted, and withall of a busie inquisitive temper, the which will carry him to question and scruple every other thing as well as the Creed of his Country: Which habit of rumaging and unravelling, being but in a few Confederate, and often meeting persons, will find work enough for ten times as many in number of such, who lazily believe as the Church believes, never prying into the Prerogatives, nor scanning the Commands, either of their Civil or Ecclesiastical Magistrates. Conform to this my Opinion, I have known the busie bolting out of new innocent Dogma's in Philosophy, discountenanced by authority, least the same Itch should grow to a scab in the Religion and policy of the place.

Now, to apply the whole, I say, that the Melancholy, jealous, discontented and active Spirits, common to all Sectaries, hath been the reason why those in Ireland, do as well find fault with the administration of the Survey, as the Sacraments; and with the distributing of Land, as well as dividing the Word, carrying them as fiercely to pull down Dr. Petty as the Protector or the Priests.