'378 Refufe not the way ofLove, tillyou is that Love cannot do, in order to their converfion axd edification, and which Light or evidence cannot do in order to their conviEion , ts not by him to be done at all. And if he will be trying with edge toots, hemay cut his own fingers fooner than cure an erring mind; And {hall find that the people will much worfe endure, aó s of force and corporal penalty, from a Pallor, than from a Magiftrate ; andwill hardly believe by any cloathing that he is a sheep , if they once perceive that he bath bloody teeth. Oar work is towin the hear; to' Chrift : And he is unfit to be a Paflór, that knowethnot howhearts are to be won. °T.1101. amittarimatmolsomm.xa DIREGT. XIII. When you have thought of all the evils that will beuncured , when Love and evidence havedone their part s yet rejeel not thr way tillyouhave foundout a better; which willdo the work that is tobe done, and that with fewer inconveniences, ir Am not now about to {fate the bounds of Li- berty in matters of Religion ; (It.requireth a full Treatife by it felf astd many tedioully dif- pute the cafe before they ever truly Dated it. ) Much lefs am I perfwading Magiftrates,that they mutt permit every deceiver to cb his worfe, to draw the people from god, or from Chriff ]efuu the Mediator, from faith and gódlinefs, any more than
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