shouldest railingly and vilifyingly say, I lye, and am a
bespatterer of honest mens lives and deaths. For Mr. Badman, when
himself was alive, could not abide to be counted a Knave (though
his actions told all that went by, that indeed he was such an one:)
How then should his brethren, that survive him, and that tread in
his very steps, approve of the sentence that by this Book is
pronounced against him? Will they not rather imitate Corah,
Dathan, and Abiram's friends, even rail at me for condemning him,
as they did at Moses for doing execution?

I know 'tis ill pudling in the Cockatrices den, and that they run
hazards that hunt the Wild-Boar. The man also that writeth Mr.
Badmans life, had need to be fenced with a Coat of Mail, and with
the Staffe of a Spear, for that his surviving friends will know
what he doth: but I have adventured to do it, and to play, at this
time, at the hole of these Asps; if they bite, they bite; if they
sting, they sting. Christ sends his Lambs in the midst of Wolves,
not to do like them, but to suffer by them for bearing plain
testimony against their bad deeds: But had one not need to walk
with a Guard, and to have a Sentinel stand at ones door for this?
Verily, the flesh would be glad of such help; yea, a spiritual man,
could he tell how to get it. Acts 23. But I am stript naked of
these, and yet am commanded to be faithful in my servi[c]e for
Christ. Well then, I have spoken what I have spoken, and now come
on me what will, Job 13. 13. True, the Text sayes, Rebuke a
scorner, and he will hate thee; and that, He that reproveth a
wicked man, getteth himself a Blot and Shame; but what then? Open
rebuke is better than secret love; and he that receives it, shall
find it so afterwards.