··. '[ )38 · ] enmity to Kings,and States,ancJ Churches,as againfl: thei.r Eiiential Rights, the unpeaceable ,managing of Difputes and Endeavours to fuch Treafon and .Slavery, may be as much reltrained by Law, as Men may be reltrained from teaching that Wives mull forfake rh~ir Husbands & lie with otherMen, · ·and Children forfake their Pat·ents, 'and Soldiers .their Kings and Captains , and all obey the Pope againfi them. \ · . , § XXIII. Yet becaufe· they will fay that we dare not hear the truth ; I think it not amifs , if they be allowed fome time,when the Rulers think fit (not to challenge weak ·Minifters. at pleafure to Difpute) bu in afit Aifembly to (iy what they .can, ·fo be it they will withal. then~ hear what can · be faid again({ them, by fome able Divine chofen py the King~ Bifhop or Minifters? who alfo fl1ould choofe the time and place. . · Thefe terms are better than the unreconcileable Hofiility ,kept up by the terms of Antichrifl and Heretic~ . . · . . ' · · XXIV. And (though the unlearned have fafer and better Books enpugh to read) I think it will do much to retlifie mens Judgments -that are in– dined to extreams , and to _mellow and fweeten their hearts into Chriftian Love, if the Learped \vould read the Devotional Pious Writings of Pa– pifis ; fuch as Bernaud, Gerfon, .. Gtrha~dus Zutpha. nienfis, $ales, K empis, Thauleros, BenedtE!m de Bene– difJis Regula Vit£; Barbanfon, Ferm, theOrato.dans, and in Englifi1 ,.The lmerior Chri(tian, Parfons of Refolution, Bak§r , the Life of Nerim , and of Mr. de Renti, and other fuch. Theywould find rhere fo much ofGod as would win their affeCtions to a Brotherly Kindnefs, whi1~ · · · · · · they - . { . ~
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