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Is there no entering there without a syllogism ? or ergoteering it with a nego^ comedo, et distinguof** This xaay pass for wit and eloquence among those I think he pleads for ; and so I am content to let it go, for the sake of my friends, the common peo- ple. But this is somewhat an unusual way of de- fending, to plead for those he professes to despise, and in such a manner as to reproach the person he undertakes to defend. From the common people we come to church- men, to see how he uses them.... And he hath soon found out a faction among them, whom he charges with "juggling designs ;*'t hut romantic heroes must be allowed to make armies of a field of thistles, and to encounter wind-mills for giants. He would fein be the instrument to divide our clergy, and to fill them with suspicions of one another; and to this end he talks of men of a *' latitudinarian stamp :" For it goes a great way towards the making divi- sions, to be able to fasten a name of distinction among brethren, — this being to create jealousies of each other.
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