of men. For I cannot think that you ſpeak theſe things of ill will but becauſe it is even ſo as you say.
Chr. Had I known him no more than you, I might perhaps have thought of him as at the firſt. you did: Yea, had he received this report at their hands only that are enemies to Religion, I ſhould have thought it had been a ſlander: (A Lot that often falls from bad mens mouths upon good mens Names and Proſeſſions:) But all theſe things, yea and a great many more as bad, of my own knowledge I can prove him guilty of. Beſides, good men are aſhamed of him, they can neither call him Brother nor Friend; the very naming of him among them, makes them bluſh, if they know him.
Fa. Well I ſee that Saying and Doing are two things and hereafter I ſhall better obſerve this diſtinclion.
The Carkaſs of ReligionChr. They are two things indeed, kajs of Re- an d are as diverſe as are the Soul and the Body: For as the Body without the Soul, is but a dead Carkaſs; ſo, Saying, if it be alone, is but a dead Carkaſs alſo. The Soul of Religion is the practick part: Pure Rel-