[ i4I J . ·Iwill,. though it.yet difpleafe, add this brief warn; ing~ · ·. If the remembrance of the years 1643 to t66o. , ~of.all that was done in E11gland, Wales and Scot– land, againfiOrder, Peace, Gov~rnment, Minifiry, found Doetrine and Difcipline, by the Sefrarian Army and the~ntinomian, Anabaptifi and Sepa– rating Minifiers and People that encouraged them, and the fatal end .they came eo without any blood1hed to overcome them, and the confequent chan– ges : I fay ifall this convince not the Separating SeCtarian fort of profelfors, that they ha,ve been beinoufiy 'injurious to the Proteftant intereft, and have ignorantly kept up the life of Popilh hopes, I know not what means can conviHce fuch men. ' 11. And if afterall the Miferies of former di- , vifions and uncharitable violence, before and in the Wars, tbofe that have added the greater bur ; dens, and revengefully done what I love not fo oft to mention, by Laws, execution and · additional reproach, ·upon Corporations, Churches, Uni- · verlities, Minifiers, and brought and yet keep the . · Land by refol:ved obfiinacy, in its divided dange,. rous·finful fiate, and ·lock up ~heir Church door ·againft defired-,Unity and Concord, andall this for nothing, but ·to jufiify the re\~engeful ch:mgers and their own complying atts, I fay again, and again, ifall this after the laH tbirty years expe– rience added to all before, feem to· the guilty no wrong to the Protefiarit interefi, nor tO the· Na- · tions Peace and Hopes, nor any advantage to Po– pery, nor any fin againfi ·Chrifr iri his , Servants, I the Lord takefome extraordinary 1 effeetual way. to convince, heal and fave fo b1ind and obdurate a people ~ for I fee no hope ofordinary means.. The
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