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 I could alo peak as ye do; if your Soul were in my Souls Stead, I could heap up Words againt you, and hake mine Head at you.

But I would trengthen you with my Mouth, and the moving of my Lips hould awage your Grief.

Tho' I peak, my Grief is not awaged; and tho' I forbear, what am I eaed? Job. xvi. 4, 5, 6.

For it was not an Enemy that reproached me, then I could have born it; neither was it he that hated me, that did magnifie himelf againt me, then I would have hid my elf from him.

But it was thou, a Man, mine Equal, my Guide, and mine Acquaintance.

We took weet Counel together, and walked into the Houe of God in company. Palm lvi. 12, 13, 14.