for them that err, they instruct them, and then leave them to their liberty, to stand or fall before their own master.

2. A Doctrine not the less safe for being the more charitable.

"Christ our Lord hath given us, amongst others, two infallible notes to know the church." "My sheep," saith he, "hear my voice:" and again, "By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if ye love one another."What shall we stand upon conjectural arguments from that which men say? ? We are partial to ourselves, malignant to our opposites. Let Christ be heard who be his, who not. And for the hearing.of his voice- that it might be the issue! But I see you decline it, therefore I leave it also for the present. That other is that which now I stand upon: "the badge of Christ's sheep." Not a likelihood, but a certain token whereby every man may know them: "by this," saith he, "shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have charity one towards another."-Thanks be to God, this mark of our Saviour is in us which

you with our schismaticks and other enemies As Solomon found the true mother by

want. her natural affection, that chose rather to yield to her adversaries plea, claiming her child, than endure that it should be cut in pieces; so may it soon be found at this day whether is the true mother. Our's, that saith, give her the living child and kill him not; or your's, that if she may not have it, is content it be killed rather than want of her will. Alas! (saith ours even of those that leave her) these be my children! I have borne them to Christ in baptism: I have nourished them as I could with mine own breasts, his testaments. I would have brought them up to man's estate, as their free birth and parentage deserves. Whether it be their lightness or discontent, or her enticing words and gay shews, they leave me they have found a better mother. Let them live yet, though in bondage. I shall have patience; I permit the care of them to their father, I beseech him to keep them that they do no evil. If they make their peace with him, I am satisfied: they have not hurt me at all. Nay, but saith your's, I sit alone as Queen and Mistress

of Christ's Family, he that hath not me for his Mother, cannot have God for his Father. Mine therefore are these, either born or adopted: and if they will not be mine they shall be none. So without expecting Christ's sentence she cuts with the temporal sword, hangs, burns, draws, those that she perceives inclined to leave her, or have left her already. So she kills with the spiritual sword those that subject not to her, yea thousands of souls that not only have no means so to do, but many which never so much as have heard whether there be a Pope of Rome or no. Let our Solomon be judge between them, yea, judge you, Mr. Waddesworth! more seriously and maturely, not by guesses, but by the very mark of Christ, which wanting yourselves you have unawares discovered in us: judge, I say, without passion and partiality, according to Christ's word: which is his flock, which is his church.

Πρὸς πολέως ἐυδαιμονίαν και δικαιοσύνην πάντα ἰδιώτου ἔμπροσθεν τέτακται φύσει· τούτων δὲ τὰ μὲν ἀνθρώπινα εἰς τὰ θεια, τὰ δὲ θεια εις τὸν ηγεμόνα Νουν ξύμπαντα δεῖ βλέπειν, ουχ ως προς αρέτης τὶ μόριον, αλλα πρὸς ἀρέτην ἐν αρεταις αει ὑπομενοῦσαν, ὡς πρὸς νόμον τίνα νομοθετουντα.

Πλατων· περὶ Νόμων.

TRANSLATION.-For all things that regard the wellbeing and justice of a State are pre-ordained and established in the nature of the individual. Of these it behoves that the merely human (the temporal and fluxional) should be referred and subordinated to the Divine in man, and the Divine in like manner to the Supreme Mind, so however that the State is not to regulate its actions by reference to any particular form and fragment of virtue, but must fix its eye on that

virtue, which is the abiding spirit and (as it were) substratum in all the virtues, as on a law that is itself legislative.

IT were absurd to suppose, that individuals should be under a law of moral obligation, and yet that a million of the same individuals acting collectively or through representatives, should be exempt from all law: for morality is no accident of human nature, but its essential characteristic. A being absolutely without morality is either a beast or a fiend, according as we conceive this want of conscience to be natural or self-produced; or (to come nearer to the common notion, though with the sacrifice of austere accuracy) according as the being is conceived without the law, or in unceasing and irretrievable rebellion to it. Yet were it possible to conceive a man wholly immoral, it would remain impossible to conceive him without a moral obligation to be otherwise; and none, but a madman, will imagine that the essential qualities of any thing can be altered by its becoming part of an aggregate; that a grain of corn, for instance, shall cease to contain