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<P>A PREPARATIVE FOR THE FAST, OR, A &s;overeigne Bal&s;ome for the cure of the di&s;tempers of the times.</P>
<P><ADD>by Job Weall apothecary</ADD></P>
<P>LONDON, Printed by <HI>A. N.</HI> for <HI>Richard Lownds,</HI> at his &s;hop adjoyning to <HI>Ludgate,</HI> 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>A PREPARATIVE FOR the Fa&s;t, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>_WHo that is embarked in the Common Ve&s;&s;ell, intere|&s;ted and engaged by the Laws both of Nature and Religion; to mayntain the Truth and Peace of the Church and State, will not at this time of their appa|rent di&s;tre&s;&s;e, lend his hel|ping hand, and give his be&s;t a&s;si&s;tance (as farre as lawfully he may) to any probable way, to clo&s;e up tho&s;e fatal wounds that have bin made therin?</P>
<P>To that end (according to my meane ability) I
<PB N="2" REF="3">have, yet once againe, adventured to ca&s;t in my Mite, and to pre&s;ent a Sovereigne and infallible Balme to heale all our Solutions of Unitie what|&s;oever.</P>
<P>Much good may come by making u&s;e thereof, and no &s;mall danger by the neglect therof. If you &s;hall finde it con&s;onant to Gods Truth, beware how you contemne and defer the u&s;e of it. How|ever it be accepted, it &s;hall comfort mee that I di&s;charged my Duty, Con&s;cience, and true affection, to the be&s;t of my under&s;tanding, for the peace and welfare of the Church and State, (though to my owne prejudice.) But to my pur|po&s;e.</P>
<P>The mo&s;t &s;acred Word of God, and the Laws and Ordinances of Man grounded thereon, are tho&s;e Oracles which afford Theorems and Aphori&s;mes, a&s;well for the knowledge of our pre&s;ent condition, as al&s;o for the true indication and perfect cure of the &s;ame, and which will one day be the Judge of us and all the World.</P>
<P>The Di&s;ea&s;e whereof the Church and State in generall labour at this pre&s;ent time, is a <HI>Solutio Continuitatis,</HI> a &s;olution of Unity. This (in Phy|&s;ick) is that <HI>Morbus communis,</HI> or preternaturall af|fect, which alike incommodates the functions of either part, and is variou&s;ly procured by (and I pray God wee &s;ee it not accompanied with) Wounds, Ulcers, Fractures and Luxations.</P>
<P>The Primary and Antecedent cau&s;e of all the&s;e Di&s;unions and Disjunctions, are mo&s;t certainly
<PB N="3" REF="3">our mo&s;t heinous &s;ins, whereby wee have ju&s;tly provoked the Almightie to wrath and indignation again&s;t us.</P>
<P>The Secondary, In&s;trumentall, and Conjunct cau&s;es, are the Malicious and Seditious practices of the Je&s;uited Papi&s;ts, and the Schi&s;maticall, fa|ctious, and &s;ini&s;ter endevours al&s;o, of others, and their adherents likewi&s;e; both of them being made the Hereticall in&s;truments of the Devill, unnatu|ally to Divide and Rent, the Head from the Bo|dy, or the Body from the Head, that he might the better rule and prevaile again&s;t both, and the Truth, Peace, and Pro&s;perity of our Church and Common-weal.</P>
<P>I am not ignorant that many good Patriots and <HI>nehemiahs,</HI> true Friends to the Church and State, are &s;candalou&s;ly branded with tho&s;e names, but I feare that &s;ome &s;eeme to be when they are not, and it is one thing to be fal&s;ly called &s;o, and another thing to bee &s;o really indeed: For &s;uch certainly there are, whom God in his good time will make manife&s;t, who unlawfully goe about to &s;ever them whom God hath joyned together, to divide and rent the Truth and Peace of the Church and State. The&s;e indeed (according to Saint <HI>Paul</HI> in the <HI>Galathians</HI>) trouble, and intend to pervert the Go&s;pel: But (&s;aith he) though that an Angell from Heaven preach unto you other|wi&s;e then the Truth, Let him be accur&s;ed.</P>
<P>The &s;ignes of this Di&s;ea&s;e have been &s;ufficient|ly made knowne, and they are apparent in their
<PB N="4" REF="4">effects, the&s;e gaping wounds, both in Church and State, pitties their beholders and friends to &s;ee them. The Progno&s;ticks are of great danger, and threaten the &s;ubver&s;ion and di&s;&s;olution of the whole Bodie, and this may ju&s;tly be feared, if the complication of this Di&s;ea&s;e bee well weighed with the manifold and malignant Symptomes wherewith the Body langui&s;hed before; this tends to the very expiration of the animall and vitall &s;pirits the life it &s;elfe; And that which makes the Omen wor&s;e, is, that In&s;truments for Cure are not only neglected, but de&s;pi&s;ed.</P>
<P>This treble cord of Unitie, to which our Ship was fa&s;tned in tho&s;e &s;tormes, is cracked, and &s;hip|wrack feared; Our partition Wall is broken downe, or at lea&s;twi&s;e uncaemented, and readie to fall, whereby we are expo&s;ed a&s;well to Forraigne as inte&s;tine mi&s;chiefes. This divide and &s;catter, if it be not prevented, will be no &s;mall cur&s;e to <HI>Jacob</HI> and <HI>I&s;rael:</HI> and our Saviour (if we will be|lieve him) tels us, that the i&s;&s;ue of a Kingdome divided again&s;t it &s;elfe will be de&s;truction.</P>
<P>The Remedies as they ought to be contrary to the effects, &s;o they mu&s;t have re&s;pect to the cau|&s;es, for till they be removed the effects will not cea&s;e.</P>
<P>That irritating and primarie cau&s;e that hath made a Separation betweene our good God and us, are our &s;innes, the&s;e are tho&s;e noy&s;ome and in|fectious vapours that have a&s;cended up, and by their interpo&s;ition and Eclip&s;e of Gods gracious
<PB N="5" REF="4">goodne&s;&s;e, have produced malignant and pe&s;tife|rous influences on us.</P>
<P>To you that are &s;o much di&s;tempered at this time, give me leave before I come to propound you a cure, to advi&s;e with you fir&s;t, that you may be the more willing to embrace and under|goe it; To which purpo&s;e let me entreat you dili|gently and con&s;ideratly to reade over and medi|tate on the &s;econd Chapter of the fir&s;t Epi&s;tle to St. <HI>Peter,</HI> if you be religiou&s;ly inclined, which I heare you much profe&s;&s;e, it will make you the bet|ter li&s;ten to what I &s;hall afterwards &s;ay unto you for the &s;ame end. In the next place I would ad|vi&s;e you to re&s;olve to be contented to referre your &s;elves to your Prudent Phy&s;icians, Whom God hath made as happy in&s;truments of his mercy for your recoverie; and let me entreat you to be per|&s;waded by tho&s;e that are, and alwayes have been, your true friends, and have loved, and de&s;ired your wel-fare as their owne: Bee confident that they know your di&s;ea&s;e, and &s;everall di&s;tempers, and the &s;everall cau&s;es of them, and have provi|ded (to their great charge and pains) fit Reme|dies for you, if you will be patient, and conforme to their directions, without which all their skill, care and co&s;t, will be of no availe to you: Your Di&s;ea&s;e for want thereof hath growne more diffi|cult of Cure, and hath contracted to it other de&s;|perate di&s;ea&s;es, and is now become of &s;uch a phre|neticall di&s;po&s;ition, that it tran&s;ports you beyond your &s;elfe, and hath depraved, and corrupted
<PB N="6" REF="5">your judgement, And your di&s;tracted feares and Phanta&s;mes make cau&s;le&s;&s;e jealou&s;ies in you, even of your be&s;t friends, and make you &s;ome|times to offend them that mo&s;t commi&s;erate and endevour to heale you.</P>
<P>Your actions now will not endure the touch|&s;tone of Common &s;ence and Rea&s;on, nor the law of the Land, nor the Ballance of the Sanctu|ary, wherein you de&s;ire to be weighed; in&s;omuch that unle&s;&s;e a &s;peedy remedy be applied, you are like to de&s;troy your &s;elfe and all yours, and it may be everla&s;tingly too. Therefore while you doe enjoy at &s;ometimes a little better under&s;tanding, let the light of common rea&s;on prevaile with you. If the benefits of recovery will not invite you to incline to a cure, yet let the terrors and torment of thy di&s;ea&s;es, and Death allure thee, and the con|&s;ideration of thy Parents and friends, or thy wife, children, e&s;tate, and all that is thine or theirs: Be|&s;ides, remember that thy life is not thine owne to di&s;po&s;e of, thou mu&s;t know that it is but lent thee for the &s;ervice of thy Creator, thou &s;halt a&s;well an&s;wer for the neglect of that due meanes God hath appointed thee for thy recoverie, As for laying of violent hands upon thy &s;elfe or any o|ther, both of them being Murther in the &s;ight of God. So likewi&s;e if the ble&s;&s;ings and Commo|dities of Unitie and Order will not prevaile with thee, Let the di&s;commodities and terrours of Di&s;|cord and di&s;order affright thee to it. Suppo&s;e thy &s;elfe and all thou ha&s;t, or can&s;t call deare and
<PB N="7" REF="5">pretious to thee, either for the pre&s;ent or the fu|ture, were embarked only in one Ve&s;&s;ell, and it in a great &s;torme, among&s;t rocks, quick&s;ands, and Pyrats, and your only Cable that holds and pre|&s;erves you from ruine were almo&s;t crackt in &s;un|der, Would&s;t thou be &s;o farre from lending thy hand to mend it, that thou woulde&s;t cut and breake it more. Certainly no man in the &s;ame Ship that under&s;tands him&s;elfs, but will account thee a mad man for &s;o doing, and hinder thee from doing it. Againe, if there were but one Bul|warke or partion-wall that keepes us from our bloudy enemies, and the cruelties of our adver|&s;aries, would&s;t thou be one of them that &s;hould pull it downe; Thinke upon the hydeous roaring of Cannons, the tormenting murders, bloudy Ma&s;&s;acres, and lamentable cryes of thy Parents, Wife, Children or Friends, and lo&s;&s;e of all, it may be of thine owne &s;oule and theirs likewi&s;e. Againe, con&s;ider of tho&s;e bounds and Fences which keepe in the violence of the Fire, and the rage of the Waters, which within their due bounds are u&s;efull and profitable for thee, wilt thou be &s;o &s;encele&s;&s;e to pull the fire out of the Chimney into the middle of thy hou&s;e, where Gun powder and other combu&s;tible matter is? Wilt thou breake downe tho&s;e bankes, and let the Ocean in to make a perpetuall deluge and inunda|tion of all? Or let me demand of thee if thou ha&s;t &s;o much judgement to di&s;cerne it, whether in thy warfare thou would&s;t not ob&s;erve military di&s;ci|pline?
<PB N="8" REF="6">Would&s;t thou bee one of them that &s;hould&s;t endeavour to breake tho&s;e rankes and formes thy Generall and Commanders order thee to fight in, and thereby to let the enemy make an inrode upon thy route, and di&s;order, and &s;o bring thee to confu&s;ion? and you mu&s;t know this may happen, by &s;o &s;mall a matter, as the lo&s;&s;e of one naile of an hor&s;e &s;hooe, inan Army, and therefore how behoveful is it for thy Comman|ders, and thee al&s;o, to take care, and prevent all di&s;order what&s;oever in the lea&s;t appearance. Wherefore now as it &s;tands thus de&s;perate, you are to be the more patient and willing to &s;ubmit your &s;elfe to your Phy&s;itians care and fidelity. Be confident that they will doe nothing but for thy good, for they and theirs are likewi&s;e interre&s;&s;ed therein. Thou mu&s;t be contented to have thy ul|cers and putulent wounds clen&s;ed before they are bound up, and Fractures and Di&s;locations are not &s;o ea&s;ily united and reduced to the &s;ervice of the body without &s;ome dolour; Peradventure &s;ome of thy wounds are gangrened, and have contracted &s;o much virulencie, that there mu&s;t bee amputati|on and di&s;membring of that joynt; But bee well a&s;&s;ured that thy Phy&s;itians will not order it &s;o to be, unle&s;&s;e they find ab&s;olute nece&s;sitie, and then thou wilt find it better to part with a limme, then lo&s;e thy life. Peradventure they may &s;ee cau&s;e to make &s;ome evacuation of thy redundant and pec|cant humours which hinder thy wounds from healing, and are apt to bring thee into other di|&s;tempers.
<PB N="9" REF="6">When they &s;ee it fitting; they will give thee Cordials to comfort thee, and to give thee re&s;t for thy un&s;etled and di&s;tempered &s;pirits, if they finde it to conduce to thy good. By this time I hope you are re&s;olved to be patient, and therefore now I will apply my &s;elfe to the Remedies.</P>
<P>Let this Principle be granted (which indeed is not to be denied) that all afflictions come from God, and all injuries what&s;oever doe befall us, by the Providence of the Almighty, and then we may pre&s;ently draw the&s;e Conclu&s;ions; That the in&s;tru|ment mu&s;t doe that which the Almighty will have it to doe, And that it can goe no farther then hee plea&s;eth to order it, and therefore we mu&s;t fir&s;t ap|ply our &s;elves to him to remove it from whom it commeth.</P>
<P>The Di&s;ea&s;e indicates a nece&s;&s;ity of a &s;peedy Vnition and Reconciliation to be made with the Almighty (whom wee have offended and provoked to wrath) in and by the Mediation and interce&s;&s;ion of our Lord and Saviour Je&s;us Chri&s;t. Speedy I &s;ay, becau&s;e that a little delay may bring a great deale of danger, few dayes neglect in this ca&s;e may hazard thy life, And if this Remedy prevaile not &s;en|tence of Death may pa&s;&s;e upon you &s;ooner then you are aware. Procra&s;tination in wounds and other di&s;ea&s;es often makes them incurable. Continuance in &s;in is not the way to make &s;atisfaction to God, Confe&s;&s;ion, and Contrition begets remi&s;&s;ion, when ob&s;tinacie heapes on further puni&s;hment. Do'&s;t thou think to e&s;cape Gods hand by murmuring
<PB N="10" REF="7">again&s;t him? Be well a&s;&s;ured, if the &s;word of Ju|&s;tice prevailes not, it may be the Plague or Famine &s;hall, or &s;ome &s;evere judgement. Thou &s;halt get nothing by thy impatience; for thou art not able to re&s;i&s;t the Almighty, and if he takes the rod into his hand againe, hee will make thee feele it to the purpo&s;e. Let me rather advi&s;e thee to &s;ubmit to the mercy of &s;o gracious and loving a Father; and not to &s;tand to the terror and anger of the Almighty. That wee may meet God in the way of his Judge|ments by Prayers and true Repentance, that &s;weet Incen&s;e which will correct and di&s;&s;ipate tho&s;e ma|levolent a&s;pects. It hath beene heartily prayed for, and endeavoured, that there might bee a generall monthly day of Humiliation, for the ble&s;&s;ing of the Parliament with Vnanimous proceedings, for the &s;etling of Religion in Truth &amp; Peace, for the com|po&s;ing of di&s;tractions at Home, and for the di&s;tre&s;&s;es and &s;ea&s;onable reliefe of our Brethren in <HI>Ireland,</HI> for aver&s;ion of tho&s;e impendent judgements over our heads. Not forgetting to give thanks to the Lord, for tho&s;e manifold Mercies we have received, and for all good meanes conducing to our reliefe.</P>
<P>That the&s;e dayes may take the better &s;ucce&s;&s;e and effect, As a praeparatory thereunto, it may prove u&s;efull and beneficiall, if &s;ome grave Ortho|dox Divines, and Chri&s;tians, wel &s;etled and affected to the Truth, and Peace of the Church and State, did meet and con&s;ider of tho&s;e chief and provoking Sinnes of this Kingdome, which are tho&s;e efficient and impul&s;ive cau&s;es of our di&s;unions and di&s;tie&s;&s;es at this time.</P>
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<P> There are que&s;tionle&s;&s;e generall &s;innes of Nati|ons as well as of particular per&s;ons, whereby God is provoked to wrath.</P>
<P>There may be &s;innes of Superiours, as well as &s;innes of Interiours, there may be &s;innes in the Court, and &s;innes in the Parliament. Sinnes of Vniver&s;ities, and &s;innes of tho&s;e &s;treames that flow from thence, &s;innes of the Citie, and &s;innes of the Country, &s;innes of the Clergie, and (which is to be lamented) &s;candalous, &s;editious, and Schi&s;maticall &s;innes of Profe&s;&s;ours, and &s;uch as take them&s;elves to be (and peradventure &s;ome of them are) of Gods owne <HI>I&s;ael</HI> and cho&s;en people, wherewith God is, and will be much incen&s;ed and offended.</P>
<P>When the&s;e are well di&s;covered (and notice al&s;o given by Advice of Authority) that true Repen|tance may be faithfully and re&s;pectively preached, and Reformation in generall and particular endea|voured, otherwi&s;e the cure will be but Palliative, and Ma&s;ter left for Recidivation. Humiliation without Reformation is but Hypocri&s;ie, which will end in Apo&s;tacie. There mu&s;t be true and plaine dealing with the Almighty, hee &s;eeth and knowes every mans heart and wayes, and ponders all our doings.</P>
<P>It is not any particular blaming one another wil excu&s;e us to him, not the Cities crying out on the Country, or Country on the Citie, or the like. Eve|ry one mu&s;t put his hand to this genreall work; every one that hath had but one hand in breaking downe our Partition wall, mu&s;t lend both hands to
<PB N="12" REF="8">build it up againe: But tho&s;e that have lent both their hands to pull it downe, and more then their owne hands too, as well in the Primary as in the in|&s;trumentall cau&s;e, had need to give more then ordi|nary diligence to the &s;peedy rebuilding thereof a|gaine. And who&s;oever that is not willing to put his helping hand hereunto, let him partake of tho&s;e mi&s;eries which his owne hands have wrought.</P>
<P>It agrees not with my di&s;po&s;ition to grate and &s;tir in tho&s;e wounds, they have already by &s;ome bin laid open, and may indue time be more largely di&s;|covered by others, to whom it properly belongs. I &s;hall rather lend my hand to clo&s;e them up, to which end till better Remedies are found out, I &s;hall make bold to recommend and Pre&s;ent a mo&s;t &s;overaigne and pretious Balme for all Solutions of Vnity what&s;oever. It is compo&s;ed of many &s;everall Ingredients of admirable vertue. It is Saint <HI>Pauls Bal&s;amum Charitatis.</HI> It is his <HI>Sine quibus e&s;&s;e nole.</HI> You &s;hall finde the Receipt in the fir&s;t of <HI>Corinthi|ans</HI> the 13 Chapter: where al&s;o you may ready the De&s;cription of the &s;everall Vertues and Operations thereof. Charity (&s;aith he) &s;uffers long, and is kind, Charity envies not, Charity vaunts not it &s;elfe, Is not puffed up, doth not behave it &s;elfe un&s;eemly, &s;eekes not her owne; is not ea&s;ily provoked, thinks no evill, Rejoyceth not in iniquity, but rejoyceth in the Truth: Beareth all things, Beleeveth all things, hopeth all things, eudureth all things.</P>
<P>The farther excellency and nece&s;&s;ity thereof, is expre&s;&s;ed in the &s;aid Chapter. Though I &s;peake
<PB N="13" REF="8">with the tongues of men and of Angels (&s;aith he) and have not Charity, I am become as &s;ounding bra&s;&s;e, or a tinckling Cymball, and though I have the gift of Prophecic, and ander&s;tand all mi&s;teries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, &s;o that I could remove Mountaines, and have no Charity, I am nothing. And though I be&s;tow all my goods to feed the poore, &amp; though I give my Body to be bur|ned, and have not Charity, it profiteth me nothing.</P>
<P>Charity never faileth, but whether there be Pro|phecies &s;hall faile, whether there be tongues they &s;hall cea&s;e, whether there be Knowledge it &s;hal vani&s;h away. And now abideth Faith, Hope, and Charity, the&s;e three, but the greate&s;t of the&s;e is Charity. This Compo&s;ition includes the Prophet <HI>Micahs Tripharmacum, viz.</HI> To doe ju&s;tly, to love Mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God. And what doth the Lord require more of thee O Man, &s;aith the Prophet.</P>
<P>This is that <HI>Bal&s;amum Sympatheticum,</HI> the true <HI>Pa|nacca</HI> that will heale all our rents and divi&s;ions, and it doth not only cure for the pre&s;ent, but pre&s;erves for the future, weare it as a <HI>Prophyactick</HI> about thee, and goe notwithout it. Hee that rejects it, put a mark upon him, and according to <HI>Solomons</HI> advice in the 24 <HI>Pro.</HI> Meddle not with him, for hee feares not God and the King, and is given to &s;edition. Avoid &s;uch an one as thou would&s;t doe a Viper, a Crocodile, a Ba&s;ilisk, or one that is infected with the Plague.</P>
<P>Our wounds being bound up with this Balme,
<PB N="14" REF="9">(it hath been likewi&s;e humbly &s;ought, and prayed for) that Religion may bee &s;etled both in Doctrine and Di&s;cipline with all due and conve|nient &s;peed, and all Prote&s;tants, e&s;pecially Mini|&s;ters, united therein by Prote&s;tation, and &s;atisfa|ctory explanations and rea&s;ons publi&s;hed thereof.</P>
<P>That the Conver&s;ion of all Papi&s;ts and other Hereticall and Schi&s;maticall Subjects in the King|dome, who have erred and gone a&s;tray from the Truth, may in all charitable and Chri&s;tian man|ner be endevoured with to be reduced home to the Church; &s;hewing them the nece&s;sity of our Separation from them, or rathers as it is indeed their Apo&s;tacie from the true Church with which we partake, the danger of the condition they are in, the benefit of embracing the&s;e, and the like gracious invitations, extending to the good of their &s;oules, bodies, and e&s;tates. Thus many of them, who certainly belong unto God, may be brought home to him, and made u&s;efull and &s;er|viceable, the re&s;t left inexcu&s;able to God, the World, and their own con&s;ciences.</P>
<P>That ju&s;tice and judgment may be executed on &s;uch as have received &s;uch putrifaction, that by their virulencie they infect and indanger others.</P>
<P>That the &s;everall langui&s;hing, oppre&s;&s;ed, who&s;e cryes have entred the eares of the Lord (&s;ome of whom for &s;everall yeares have received al|mo&s;t
<PB N="15" REF="9">deadly wounds for the mayatenance of the publike good) may in good time be relieved and redre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P>That the well de&s;erving may be incourage, Virtue advanced, and Vice depre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P>Thus God will be pacified, and wee united and reconciled to him, and among&s;t our &s;elves. Thus all tho&s;e incoveniences and Mi&s;chiefs which we feare, by Gods ble&s;sing on the unanimous endea|vours of the Parliament, may turne to our great ble&s;sing and commoditie.</P>
<P>Thus our Ship will arrive &s;afely at her de&s;ired Port.</P>
<P>Thus our treble Cord, and Partition Wall, will be made &s;tronger then ever.</P>
<P>Thus tho&s;e bloudy, fiery and malignant Con|figurations (which hang over our heads) will be &s;peedily terminated, and their revolutions pre|vented for the future, and wee &s;hall receive more benigne and favourable influences and a&s;pects from above, then ever wee had before.</P>
<P>Thus wee &s;hall begin a new World, or at lea&s;t|wi&s;e make a happy Conclu&s;ion of an old, Where|in God will give us one heart, and one Way (as
<PB N="16" REF="10">it is in <HI>Jeremiah</HI>) that wee may feare him for ever, for the good of us and our Children after us.</P>
<P>God I &s;ay will doe it, for He and He only is a|ble to unite and heale all our Solutions, and there|fore, <HI>Not unto us Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name be given the Glory and Pray&s;e, now and for evermore.</HI> Amen.</P>
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<P>PErlegi Tractatum hunc ingenio&s;um, in quo nihil inveniri pote&s;t, quod non &s;it pium, religio&s;um, bonismoribus, legibu&s;|que &s;anis maxime con&s;entaneum: ce&s;&s;ent ita|qu&egrave; virulentae malevolorum linguae hoc (ut optima im&ograve; quidem omnia &s;olent) carpere opu&s;culum, acerbitatis &s;uae virus in Autho|rem candidum evomere erube&s;cant; &amp; dum moro&s;os &amp; imprudentes no&s;tri hujus &s;aeculi homunciones (quorum in&s;ipidis palatis nihil ni&s;i proprii cerebelli figmenta &s;apit) ad re|ctam rationis legumque normam reducere conatur, ab omnibus (quibus curae e&s;t pax &amp; &s;erena Eccle&s;iae heu nimis nunc tempo|ris dilaceratae tranquillitas) laudem, uti ben&egrave; meretur, con&s;equartur.</P>
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