214 Church- crueltyandperfecutionfound iii to you,) zl)ofoever as ofyour mind atprefent, Ptifli.' city 7xili f,y as I have toldyou : And though wrong trays ieem fit or necefiary for fomeprefent exigence, or jebb , yet nothing but Truth, and Integrity,and Charity and Concord,, will do the main work, and hold out to the fall. The forefight of impatient guilt,& cenfure hav- ing caufed me here togive you this premonition (betides what is in theEpiftle)now Reader,go on. G the deceitfulnefs of the heart ofman ! Little do many real Separatifs, who cry out againff the Ipirit of perfecution, fufpett that thefamefpirit is in them!uhence is perfecrtion,but from thinking ill of others, & abhorring them,or not loving them And do not you do fo by thofe whom you cauflefly feparate from ? you will fay, that thoughyou thinly them not to be true Chri/li.ns, yet you love them as men, and u-ifh their,góod : And fo will tbofe fay by you, whom you call your `Perfecutors : Though trey think you to be proud and humerous, and difobedient 3 et they fay they Love you amen, and do but corre& you to cure your felf-willed- nefs and humour, and todoyou good, and to pre ferve the publick peace. They ,thtnb you to be bad, and therefore rr:prifon you : you think them to be bad, and therefore azoid Cornrriunion with them. - They think you fo bad as to be ,unwor- thyof civil liberty and'priviledges : you think there fo bad as to be unworthy of Ch/rcbpriviledges and liberties. They think you tmworthy tobe fuíier- ed in the land perhaps. And you think them un- worthy to be frittered in the Churches. They cry' againfi you, Away with them they are fchifmati-' cal cr heretical ; you cry againil them', Away
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