Chapter III: Part 3

_Trim._ Why their way is, only to put _Religion_, and _Government_ in _Another Dress_; but under the Name, of [Religion,] and [_Government_,] _Still_; and then to lay on a _Superstructure_, Answerable to the _Foundation_; I speak of the Leaders only; for their Disciples are _Blanck Paper_; and ready for _any Impression_. They _Talk_, to the Ears, and to the Passions of their _Hearers_, not to their Understandings: and their _Auditors_ gather more of their _Meaning_, from their _Gestures, Actions, Countenances_, and from _Pathetical Tones_, then from the _Words Themselves_. As for _Sense_, or _No Sense_, 'tis _all a Case_; for 'tis the _Jingle_, not the _Matter_, that does _Their Bus'ness_. The _Less_ the People Understand, the _More_ they are Edify'd; for they take the _Congruities_ of Carnal Reason, for Vain Philosophy; and Incomprehensible Nonsense, passes for _the Work of the_ Light Within. Their _Religion_ lies alltogether in Groan, and Rapture: _They Sacrifice to the_ Unknown God; and in One Word; They _Supply_ the _Want_ of Knowledge, with an _Excess_ of Zeal; and when they cannot _Understand_ the Plain English of a _Discourse_, they Wrap Themselves up in the Mystery. The making of a _Party_, & the Saving of their own _Skins_, are the _Two Main Points_ of the _Leaders_; and therefore, they _Cover_ themselves under Ambiguity, & Riddle; & Compass those Matters, by _Theatrical Gesticulations_, & _Actions_, which they dare not _Venture_ upon, in _Words_ at _Length_, or by the _Dint_ of _Argument_; for there is no _Law_ against _making of_ Faces, _and Dusting of_ Cushions, They are told _Mightily_, and _Plainly_, of _Heaven_, and _Hell_; but in such a _Manner_, that they will _Never Allow_ God, and the Government to be _Both of a side. Schism_ is Dignified with the _Name_ of Conscience; the Story of their _Grievances_, is the _Bitterest_ of Satyrs; Their very Petitions have the force of _Invectives_; and the _Smoother_, the _Softer_, you find the _Surface_ of them, the _Falser_, and the more _Dangerous_ they are at the _Bottom_: For betwixt the Persecution that is _Insinuated_, on the part of the _Government_, & the Innocence, the Piety, and the Modesty, on that of the Sufferers, Nothing can more Provoke, a _Horror_, and _Indignation_ for the _One_, or a _Tenderness_, & _Compassion_, for the _Other_.

_Obs._ That is to say, among Those that are not _Well Enform'd_, in the _Reason_, and _Equity of the Cause in Question_.

_Trim._ Come Come. I tell ye _Nakedly_ how things Are, and not how they Ought to be: and I speak of _Those Men_ too, that neither Do, nor Will, nor Can make a _Right Judgment_ upon the Matter in _Issue_. They do not take down _Reasons_ in Connexion; neither do their _Teachers_ so much as Offer at'em; But _their Work_ is, only to _Feed_ Itching Ears, and Humours, with _New-Quoyn'd Words, Affectate Phrases_: And briefly, to _Instruct_ their _Disciples_, by _Signs_ and _Tokens_, like so many _Dancing Horses_ to fall Lame upon all Four, for the _Pope_; to come-over, for the _Grand Vizier_; and at the very _Sound_ of Babylon, Anti-Christ, or Absolute Power, to Snort, and Boggle, as if they _Smelt Fire_. If I may tell ye the _Arrant Truth_, and _Simplicity_ of my _Heart_; This is the very Train of a Popular Institution. They are Tutor'd, and Inur'd, to the Assuming of such and such _Passions_, upon such and such _Occasions_; and they do All their _Ayres_, and _Tricks_, by the Direction of the _Hand_, or _Eye. They Dance_ to _Sounds, Hints, Nodds, Forms_, and _Syllables_; not to the force of _Fair Reasonings_, and _Natural Conclusions_; Nay, they are Taught, when to be _Angry_; when to be _Pleas'd_; and their very _Inclinations_, and _Aversions_, are none of their _Own, Neither_: The _Whole Bus'ness_, in short, is Artifice, Manage, and Practice; for _All their_ Mistakes, _and_ Mis-understandings, _take the_ Same Biass.

_Obs._ I do _Observe_, indeed, that they Shelter themselves under the _Dark Prophets_, and the _Revelation_. The _Number of the Beast_, they have all at their _Fingers Ends_; the _Geneva-Bibles_ are _Thumm'd_ over and over, at the _Same Texts_: As upon the Subject of the _Groves_, & the _High Places, Christian Liberty, Will-Worship, Humane Inventions, Idolatry, Superstition_, &c. There's not a _Verse_ in the whole _Bible_, against _Persecution_, but makes them Shake their Heads at the _Government_. Popery by _Interpretation_, is Episcopacy: The _Liberty_ of the Subject, has an _Aking Tooth_ at the _Prerogative_ of the Prince: But finally; such and such Terms, and Forms of Speaking, are, by Common Consent, to pass for _Current_, under such or such a Sense, and Meaning, how _Contrary_ soever, to their _Proper_, and _Genuine Signification_, or _Import_. But this speaks only to the Propagating of _Jelousies_, not to the Rise of them.

_Trim._ If you Ask me the [Rise] of _Jelousies_, I must _Answer_ ye, that they are _Begotten_ betwixt Ambition, Avarice, Hypocrisy, Craft, Malice, and Disloyalty, on the _One_ side; and Ignorance, Obstinacy, Blind Zeal, and an Impetuous Temerity, on the _Other_.

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