The hurt ofneedlefs f ngalarstym, 229 fees,. that cry , Touch not , tall not , handle not ; or a fort ofmelancholly hump riffs, who muff fit becaufe their neighbours íland, or muff go out of the way , becaufe their neighbours go in it; This maketh them juffifie all their cruelties, to you and others, and think perfecution to be their duty : and to fay that, the whip it for the fools back, and n anton children muß be made rife by the rod ; and that it is no wrong to a mad man to lie in Bedlam. ; Ifyou fay, that Godlinefs bath been alnayesper=` fecuted, I anfvver, But ifyou are the caufers of it, though it muff needs be that fcandal or offence comes yet wo tohim bywhom it cometh. Math. 18.7. Luk. 17. 1, 2. The way of heavenly wifdome is pure, but peaceable andgentle aQd eafie to be entreated The way that Chriff and his Apoffles have led us, is to draw as near to fnners as we can , by Love and all the offices of Love , neither following them in any fin, nor flying from the in any thing that is lawful ; that they may c minced that it is not humour and difdain and pride, but true ne ce/jity and Gods command, which maketh us differ from them as we !o. And that we may not be dîfabled by any contrary errours ofour own from evincing and oppugning theirs. S 3 DIRECT.
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