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Excerpt from Reflections on the Present State of British India
Ders of our feet, so long as in that notion they may yet serve to polish and brighten the ar moury of truth, even for that respect they were not utterly to be cast away. But if they be of those whom God hath fitted for the special use of these times with eminent and ample gifts, and those perhaps neither among the priests nor among the Pharisees, and we, in the haste of a precipitant zeal, shall make no distinction, but resolve to stop their mouths, because we fear they come with new and dangerous opinions, as we commonly fore judge them ere we understand them no less than so to us, while, thinking thus to defend the Gospel, we are found the persecutors! This I know, that errors in a good government and in a bad are equally almost incident; for what magistrate may not be misinformed, and much the sooner, if liberty of printing be reduced into the power of a few? But to redress willingly and speedily what hath been erred, and in highest authority to esteem a plain advertise ment more than others have done a sumptuous.
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