I ve included a passage of the bible on my user page I want it to open the page and will keep it here because I feel it acentuates the writing that follows so without any further ado here is some biblical goodness THE BEST THINGS HAVE BEEN CULMINATED Zeal to promote the common good whether it be by devising anything ourselves or revising that which hath been laboured by others deserveth certainly much respect and esteem but yet findeth but cold entertainment in the world It is welcomed with suspicion instead of love and with emulation instead of thanks and if there be any hole left for cavil to enter and cavil if it do not find a hole will make one it is sure to be misconstrued and in danger to be condemned This will easily be granted by as many as know story or have any experience For was there ever any projected that savoured any way of newness or renewing but the same endured many a storm of gainsaying or opposition A man would think that Civility wholesome Laws learning and eloquence Synods and Church maintenance that we speak of no more things of this kind should be as safe as a Sanctuary and out of shot as they say that no man would lift up the heel no nor dog move his tongue against the motioners of them For by the first we are distinguished from brute beasts lead with sensuality By the second we are bridled and restrained from outrageous behaviour and from doing of injuries whether by fraud or by violence By the third we are enabled to inform and reform others by the light and feeling that we have attained unto ourselves Briefly by the fourth being brought together to a parley face to face we sooner compose our differences than by writings which are endless And lastly that the Church be sufficiently provided for is so agreeable to good reason and conscience that those mothers are holden to be less cruel that kill their children as soon as they are born than those nursing fathers and mothers wheresoever they be that withdraw from them who hang upon their breasts and upon whose breasts again themselves do hang to receive the Spiritual and sincere milk of the word livelihood and support fit for their estates Thus it is apparent that these things which we speak of are of most necessary use and therefore that none either without absurdity can speak against them or without note of wickedness can spurn against them Yet for all that the learned know that certain worthy men Anacharsis with others have been brought to untimely death for none other fault but for seeking to reduce their Countrymen to god order and discipline and that in some Commonwealths e g Locri it was made a capital crime once to motion the making of a new Law for the abrogating of an old though the same were most pernicious And that certain Cato the elder which would be counted pillars of the State and patterns of Virtue and Prudence could not be brought for a long time to give way to good Letters and refined speech but bare themselves as averse from them as from rocks or boxes of poison And fourthly that he was no babe but a great clerk Gregory the Divine that gave forth and in writing to remain to posterity in passion peradventure but yet he gave forth that he had not seen any profit to come by any Synod or meeting of the Clergy but rather the contrary And lastly against Church maintenance and allowance in such sort as the Ambassadors and messengers of the great King of Kings should be furnished it is not unknown what a fiction or fable so it is esteemed and for no better by the reporter himself Nauclerus though superstitious was devised Namely that at such a time as the professors and teachers of Christianity in the Church of Rome then a true Church were liberally endowed a voice forsooth was heard from heaven saying Now is poison poured down into the Church etc Thus not only as oft as we speak as one saith but also as oft as we do anything of note or consequence we subject ourselves to everyone s censure and happy is he that is least tossed upon tongues for utterly to escape the snatch of them it is impossible If any man conceit that this is the lot and portion of the meaner sort only and that Princes are privileged by their high estate he is deceived As the sword devoureth as well one as the other as it is in Samuel 2 Sam 11 25 nay as the great Commander charged his soldiers in a certain battle to strike at no part of the enemy but at the face And as the King of Syria commanded his chief Captains to fight neither with small nor great save only against the King of Israel 1 Kings 22 31 so it is too tru