, '[ 5)9 ] they find fo much ofth~t which is in theinfelvef~ Holy breathings after God,. are favory to thofe that have the like. , I know thofe that have read ,or heard. fuch boeks as thefe, tliat have faid, How pave we mf{under.ftood the P~~tpi{fs t If' an efieemed Minifier fhould Preach part ofThe Interior Chriftian~ . or fuch another book, and not tell his h~arers who{e it w.u, I doubt not but many .godly .people, vmuld cry it up for a moll: excellent Sermon ; When ras if they before knew that it wasa Papifis they wo~ld run away. . . I do not by any ofthis encourage any raw un~ grounded Prdteftants t0 cafe themfelves on the Temptation of Popia1 Conwany or Books: But that you may Jee that I write not this rafl1ly and without . juft caufe, I will inftance in one Book called Bunnys·Rej obttion: It was written by Par– fons, 01).e accounted a moft traiterous Jefuire, and f.dmun d Bunny CorreCted and Publifl1ed it ; (and Parfons Repi·inted it Wi th more Popery, reviling Bunny for being fo bold with his Book, as to fpunge out the Popifh Errours. · I have met with fe:veral eminent Chriftians that magnified the good they had received by that Book. · When I was 2 I years of Age, the Bitl1ops~ fe.:. Yerity againft Private Meeting caufed many excel– lent Chriftians in Shcewsbury to rn.eet fecretly for mutual Edification : ~At one of thefe where w~s pfMinifters Mr. Cradock, Mr. lich. Simonds, and l\fu. fawler ( qft out at ~ridewell Churcl~ [ln~~) Mr. S jmonds faid, that ~here wer~ · fome godly women ~n -great doubt of the fincerity of their ·Conyerfiop,' p~ecaufe . tl~ey ~pe'y not .the T~me, Means ~nd Manner of it, and d~llred all that were .. , ~mipg fQpp~n ~h~ ~~fe of the~r 9\YO, ~9 fatfiisfih~ .. . lY.: , • I .; I
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