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lesse meant irreverently of it, or of the Professors thereof. You cannot think but I may in my several places have observed much abuse of it, and hypocrisie, which are the things I only strike at: As for what querulous persons may think, I trouble not my self with it: The use I have for Religion is to save my soul, which end no misconstructions can frustrate. I do not much covet to be well thought off, by any that use it to other purposes.
And for what you advise me about my Satyre, I accept it; imputing it to your haste, that you have forgotten how I promised not to set it out, till by the future carriage of my Adversaries I had measured the latitude I was to use in it.
As for the Sectaries: I should make as much conscience of offending one of the least of them, were I Leviathan, as of the whole Shoal, being but as I am. Nevertheless, if particular men amongst them stand in my way, they must take what happens: The like to which, I must expect
