wouldnot you vouchfafe to name that Herefie which I have owned : I have given you large Field-room, in near So Books ; and few men can fo write, as that a willing man maynot find fome words which he is able to call He- retie : A little learning, wit, or honefty, will ferve for fuch an hereticating prefumption. 2. I never heard that Arminius was called anArminian, nor Luther a Lutheran, nor BiMMop Laud a Laudian; but if you be upon the knackof makingNames, you belt knowyour ends, and befl know how to- fit themtoit. 3. But ferioufly, do younot know my Judgment ? will not about So Books inform you ? how then canI help it ? 4.No, but you know not what Party I amof, nor what tocall me ; I am forrier for you in this than for my felf ; if youknownot, I will tell you, I am a CHRIST I- AN, a ME E R CHR I S TI AN, of no other Religion ; and the Church that Iam ofis the Chrifiian Church, and bath been vifble where e- ver the ChrifiianReligion and Church hath been vifible : But mutt you know what Seaor Party I am of ? Iamagainft all Seas and dividing Par- ties But if any will call Meer Chrëianr by the name of a Party, becaufe they take upwithmeer Chrillianity, Creed, and Scripture, and will not be of any dividingorcontentious Sea, I am of that Party which is fo againft Parties Ifthe Name CHRISTIAN be not enough; call me a C A- TH OL I CK CHRISTIAN; not as that word fignifieth an here- ticatingmajority of Bilhops, but as it fignifieth one that hath no Religiona, but that whichby Chrifl and theApofiles wasleft to the Catholick Church, or the Body of Jefus Chrifi on Earth. And now Sir, I am forty that you are not content withmeer Chriftiani- ty, and to be a Memberof the Carholick Church, and hold the Communion of Saints, but that youmull needs alfo be of a Sea, and have fame other Name: And how íhall I know that your Sea is better than another? Were not thePapifts Seaaries and Schifinaticks, damning molt of Chrifts Body on Earth .. for not being fubjea ro their Pope, I fhould not be fo mucks againft them. I find promifes of Salvation in Scriptures to Believers, that is,Chriflians as fuch (if fuch fincerely,) but none of the falvation of ïnetr. as Papas, Diocerans, Grecians, 'Nefforians, Eutychians, &c. l' would fay alto [nor as'ProteJlants] did I not take the Religion called Prot egant (aName which I am not fond cf) to be nothing but fimple ChriJiianity, with oppo- fìtionto Popery, and other fuch corruption. And now you know your own defigns, your tongue is your own, and who can controul you ,whàf. ever you will call us but I, and fuch others, call our felves ME É. R CHRISTIANS, or CATHO LICK CHRISTIANS, againft all Seas and Sedation names, andhaters both of true Herefie, Schifine, and: proud,unrighteous, hereticating andAnathematizing. Pfal 4.0 ye font' of men ,. how long willye turnmy glory into Jhzme ? how long will ye love vanity, and feek_after lying? But know that the Lord bath let apart him that isgodly for bimfelf: Pfal. t 2. t, 2, 3, 4, 5. HelpLord, for the godly man ceafeth ; for the faithful fail from among the childrenof men: They fpeak vanity every one vith hit Neighbour, &c. See the refl. b I will
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