. .... ,. . Who ,wouldIhatne Reltgion. i9 It is the nature oftrue Repentance, to cryotlt aspublickly as we can to all the world, and be glad to leave it upon record [ It wa6 not Goal or Religion that ever encouraged me to theftfins ; bait it veld my owndoing: Religion is clear but I am'gtilty.], Pardon this long excurfionon this fubje&. And, if you cannot bear it, I cannot help.that. I mad( not the fore, norgalled place which is fo tender. I only mind you, in anfwer to your objeó ion, that Fanion and opinions will raise perfecutions, and have done, even . by fach as you, yet do not feparate from. I know none of you that feparate from the Anabaptiffs-and Separatifts who were the au..! thors of thefe ' aforefaid perfecutions, nor dó I urge you to it. Therefore dó but impartially, judge of the fin. Obj. But it rs one thing to perfecwte for particular opinions and interefts '(u almoft all parties have fmetimes done ) 4nd another thing to perfecnte for Godlinefs itfelfe. Anfo: T confefs it is, and thedifference b ttiveen thefe two is very great. But I pray you confider, ficfi, that they are busfete, perhaps not one, of all that you feparate from that ever per. fecuted you any way at all : Nor can you prove that ever they fo much as allowed of it. Secondly, That they whom you and I do ter by, donot believe that they perfectate sti for Goal nefs, but think that here the cafe is more defen fible titanyor4rs was. For you had no jufi authority over ra : When the Anabapt,fts did pull down the Minifiers they pull'd down the Mrgifirates too ; And therefore it w:s a perfcution of equals, without sathority ; But mote that -we.. eri V 2 ffit
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