. t 447 ] lived in love and Peace ', and had not one fepara-: ting Affembly in a great Town and Parifi1; And where to this day tlrey live in Piety, Love and Peace, and I hear not ?f qne perfon that for any - difference, breaketh this bond of brotherly love, , · and liveth in' any oppofition to the reft. Yet Stran– gers are told, that· we are mad/ in religious Sects , and Strife. Indeed zealous people that account all theMatters of theWorld, but trifles in Compari– fon of things everlafiing, do makea greater Mat~ ter of them,than men of no Religion do. Ifamong them one or two turn to any dangerous Seer or Courfe, it fiirs up much cenfure and oppofition, when in undifciplined Churches corrupted like the common World, multitudes in a Parilh may abfl:ain ftorn Sacramems, andin Coffee~Ho_ufes or . · at Vifits familiarly talk cfga.infi the Immortality of · the S9ul, and againfi the Scripture and all ferious Religwn, an_d it rnaketh no great noife. An Act of Fornication once in many Years among chaft religious perfons, is a Scandal fcar~e ever to be ~xpiated ; when among known Stews it's little 'talkt of. Weeds are not fuffered in a Garden: But in the 'Commons wlio pulls them up? And what "''onder if they fl:rive mofi about Religion who va– lue it mofi? Dogs \V ill fight for Bones and Carrion, - and Swine for ·Draff: But Men will foorier fight for Gold and Pearls, whiJ~· Dogs and Swine like ~peaceable Creatures P'lfs them by, or tread them in the Dirt. . All true ChrHUans are agreed in all tbat Gcd .I!ath made neceffary ro Chrifliani ry and S3lvacion ;, And no men on Eanh v;:ere ev~r fo wife:, as to be agreed of the meaning of every 'Nord befides in the Bible j Much 1efs~ i tl ~{11 rj111t Ufurping Univt r!a l LegiGators \Yill obtrude. · · • \iVb;:;~
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