And therefore I apply my selfe to ingenuitie, and ever to speake truth and what I think[…].

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But concerning some persons of your neighbourhood... their Confession [of Faith] is rather an opinion than a true and sincere earnestness, for all of them are not that which they boast and glory to be; there may be many honest hearts among them; but many of them are only historical and titular, and desire only to show themselves, and to be applauded ...

Alsop is a violent attitudinizer, and one of the attitudes he strikes is that of the patrician American, a vanishing breed.