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96 over his words and ways, fo as to tye up himſelf from that hectoring liberty, that the brave ſpirits of the times accuſtom themſelves unto, would make me the Ridicule of the times. He objected alſo, that but few of the Mighty, Rich, or Wiſe, were ever of my opinion; nor any of them, before they were perſwaded to be Fools, and to be of a voluntary fondneſs, to venture the loſs of all, for no body elſe knows what. He moreover objected the baſe and low eſtate and condition of thoſe that were chiefly the Pilgrims of the times; in which they lived, alſo their ignorance, and want of underſtanding in all natural Science. Yea, he did hold me to it at that rate alſo, about a great many more things then here I relate; as, that it was a ſhame to ſit whining and mourning under a Sermon, and a ſhame to come ſighing and groaning home. That it was a ſhame to ask my Neighbour forgiveneſs for petty faults, or to make reſtitution where I had taken from any: he ſaid alſo that Religion made a man grow ſtrange to the great, becauſe of a few vices (which he ed