260 Ferfesntsonfor .Religion el Godlinefs. fuller by now are our lawful Rulers, who have made Lear' to require us to fubfcribe, and fay and (wear and do the things which we donot ? And therefore they think that we fuller but for a diffe- rent opinion joyned with difobedience. It is not alli men whoa they forbid to 'preach, bux who diffent and do not obey them It is not all men that are godly whom they imprifon; but thole that meet to worfhip God in a place and manner differing from theirs, and forbidden by them. So that how can you fay that this is not fordifferingopinions. Obj. But we forbid not them to hold their own Church- communion, though wefeparate from them,we never denied them the liberty of their confciencei. iinfze. Some of your judgement denied many ofthemmuch of that liberty which confifleth in worshipping of God in their own way, when you were in power. But fuppofe they had not, it is but another way of uncharitablenefs : The vice ex- prefed feemeth to be the fame. For you condemn them as unfit for ChriftianCommunion ,,, and ' thereforeyou exclude them from yours And you take their Church communion amore; themfelvs, to be but a, prophanation of holy things : which maketh them the more impious, ancr therefore the more odious : And you tolerate it in themas 'you tolerate mens folly and madnefs, or leprofie or plague, becaufe you cannot cure it. And I pray you judge whether there be any more Cbri- fli.an Love in this kind ofdealing, than there isín that which you call perfecution ? Or at leaíf, whet h nr it pi cceednot from the fame uncharita- blenefs Z I fupl-cafe you to be f1iritual and not car
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