injustice.

Let them therefore no longer deceive you, dear Sr. and as the guise of
these vile men is, tell you they are the Godly-party, under which for the
present they would pass, and _courage themselves in their wickedness_,
stoping their ears, and shutting their eyes against all that has been
taught and practised by the best of Christians, & holiest of Saints these
sixteen hundred years: _You shall know them by their fruites, do men
gather Grapes of Thornes, or Figs of Thistles?_ But so, being miserably
gall'd with the remembrance of their impieties, and the steps by which
they have ascended to those fearfull precepices, they seek to allay the
secret pangs of a gnawing worme, by adopting the most prodigious of their
crimes into a Religion fitted for the purpose, and versatile as their
giddy interest, till at last, encourag'd by the number of thriving
Proselytes and successes, they grow feared and confident; swallowing all
with ease, and passing from one heresie to another; whilst yet they are
still pursued, and shalt never be at repose: For Conscience will at last
awake, and then how frightful, how deplorable, yea, how inexpressably sad
will that day be unto them! _For these things have they done, and I held
my tongue _(saith God)_ and they thought wickedly, that I am such a one as
themselves; but I will reprove them and set before them the things that
they have done. O consider this ye that forget God, least he pluck you
away, and there be none to deliver you!_

And now _Sir_, you see the liberty which I have taken, and how farr I have
adventured to testifie a friendship which I have ever professed for you: I
have indeed been very bold; but it was greatly requisite; and you know
that amongst all men there are none which more openly use the freedom of
reprehension, then those who love most: Advices are not rejected by any,
but such as determine to pursue their evill courses; and the language