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Job 32:2

Verse 3

WHO is this that darkens Counsel, by words without knowledge? Come, you pitiful Alaz Short for Alazonomastix, the pseudonym of Henry More.: you false Philalethes Greek: "Lover of Truth." Vaughan uses this as his own name, but mocks More for pretending to be a lover of truth.! Gird up your loins like a Man, for I will demand of you, and you answer me.

But now I think upon it, I will allow you some time for breath after your late scolding, and speak a few words to my Reader. Reader, I have met with a thing, a name and no thing, a Presbyterian: one who pleads for the Transfer of Tithes from Melchisedec A biblical king and priest, often cited in arguments over church taxation. to Brown Robert Browne, founder of the Brownists, a radical separatist sect., and in pure famine stands up for the Pig-plot A satirical reference to clerical greed regarding food tithes.. He is a Gudgeon A small, easily caught fish, often used metaphorically for a gullible person. of Cham Ham, the son of Noah, often used in polemics to label someone as base or cursed.; one who builds his Faith on the Classes Presbyterian governing bodies., on a certain Order and Combination of Arses A vulgar pun on "asses.".