unity."--ED.

[414] Cartwright approved of them, and well knew the concealed
writers, who frequently consulted him: this appears by Sir G.
Paul's "Life of Whitgift," p. 65. Being asked his opinion of
such books, he said, that "since the bishops, and others there
touched, would not amend by grave books, it was therefore meet
they should be dealt withal to their farther reproach; and
that some books must be _earnest_, some _more mild and
temperate_, whereby they may be both of the spirit of Elias
and Eliseus;" the one the great mocker, the other the more
solemn reprover. It must be confessed Cartwright here
discovers a deep knowledge of human nature. He knew the power
of ridicule and of invective. At a later day, a writer of the
same stamp, in "The Second Wash, or the _Moore_ Scoured _once
more_," (written against Dr. Henry More, the Platonist), in
defence of that vocabulary of _names_ which he has poured on
More, asserts it is a practice allowed by the high authority
of Christ himself. I transcribe the curious passage:--"It is
the practice of Christ himself to character _men_ by those
_things_ to which they assimilate. Thus hath he called _Herod_
a _fox_; _Judas_ a _devil_; _false pastors_ he calls _wolves_;
the _buyers and sellers_, _theeves_; and those Hebrew Puritans
the _Pharisees_, _hypocrites_. This rule and justice of his
Master St. Paul hath well observed, and he acts freely
thereby; for when he reproves the Cretians, he makes use of
that ignominious proverb, _Evil beasts and slow bellies_. When
the high priest commanded the Jews to _smite_ him on the face,
he replied to him, not without some bitterness, _God shall
smite thee, thou white wall_. I cite not these places to
justify an injurious spleen, but to argue the liberty of the
truth."--_The Second Wash, or the +Moore+ Scoured once_ more.
1651. P. 8.

[415] One of their works is "A Dialogue, wherein is laid open the
tyrannical dealing of L. Bishopps against God's children." It
is full of scurrilous stories, probably brought together by
two active cobblers who were so useful to their junto. Yet the
bishops of that day were not of dissolute manners; and the
accusations are such, th