Such a loathsome appearance of vizards and pretences for the extenuating of sin, and countenancing of men in the practice of it, was never before presented unto the eyes of men. The main of their design, as is now manifest, hath been so to interpret Scripture laws, rules, and precepts, as to accommodate them all to that course of corrupt conversation which prevaileth generally in the world, even among them who are called Christians,— “Gratum opus agricolis;”— a work exceedingly acceptable and obliging
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