r1 will thank them with great joy : For I do not think there are forty, that I fay not twenty, filenced Minifters alive in all Eng- land, that had anyhand in the War againft the King. And it's an oddkind of Juflice that fhould eject and accufe fo great a num- ber for other mens AM`tions. 5. But ifour Doctrine be Seditious, why fhould not we be al- lowed rather to Preach openly where Witneffes may convict us, and the Law take hold on us, than in fecret to four, where none can convia us ? 6. And how comes it topats, that whilft fo many hundred Mi. nifters are hunted and ruined for Preaching, we hear ofnóne at all punilhed for any Falfe or Seditious Doáárine ? Do thofe that Watch, accule and ruin us, want will to find.out our falte or ill Doctrine while I am writing this, the common talk is, two poor Fellowsaccufed fuch a one, and two Beggars, or poor Wo- men that flood at the doors, took their Oaths againfl fuch, and fuch, and fuch, many Warrants granted to diítrain for Forty Pound or Sixty Pound aSermon, on Minifters and People ; the Citizens Goods feized, and carryed away, their Shops made bare, many laid in Jayls, and thoufands waiting for titter ruin of all they have ; and all this on the account of their Preaching and Hearing as without the Common Prayer ; and not a word among all thefe ofany Falfe Doarine fpoken. 7. And Gods great mercy havingoflateyears opened thePrefs, the Nonconformitts have Printed abundance of their Sermons, that theWorld may fee what Doctrine they Preached : There are two Volumes ofMorning Le&ures at one place, and two at another, and one Volume of Lectures againft Popery. There is a great Volume ofMr. Charnock sSemons, and a great one, and mary Iefler of Dr.Manton's ; many Folio's ofMr. Anth. Burg,effes, divers of Dr. Bales, divers ofMr. Richard Alleine's, Dr. Gilpin of Temptations, and abundance more. You have an accOunt ofmy own DoCtrine in above an hundred Books, of which I leave Pofterity to judge.. L. Tes, we hear what ù f :icy againft' you for your Rebellious Do- Urine informer times. M. I then gave the World an account in-my Book called Poli- tical Aphorifirs, or a Holy Common-wealth written for Monar- chy by Mr. Harrington's Provocation, what moved me to be on theParliaments fide 5 and I know nothing that they have charged X on
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