C iÿ) co rverfe and talk with thole of your prefeat Party; yea that your own Religion is not to be known byBoots, as being lyable to be mifunderftood, fo well as by talking with Papas , and asking them what is their Faith or Religion. Sir, I judge byyour Stile that you are a manof zeal and confcience in your way, and therefore that you write not this fraudulently again{± your con- fcience. Sure then you muff needs be a man of more than ordinary ignorance, that can believe what you fay. i. Is it your objective or your subjeaive Faith that we are dilputing of ? If it be not the ,Rule and objet of your Faith, every man indeed may tell us what he beliezeth h mfelf, but no man can tell us what another believeth. And then you have as many Religions as men ; for every min hath one of his own, and no two men in the world know and be- lieve juff all the fame things, neither more nor lefs : And what (hall thofe of us think of your Religion then, who find that one of you affirmeth what another deny- eth ? For inífance, A worthy Perlon of your Religion af- firmed to me, that notwithffanding the Fifth Command- ment [Honour thy Father and Mother,] a Mother hath not any Governing Power over a Child, nor the child oweth any obedience to theMother, during the Fathers life, becaufe it were confufion were there more Gover- nours in a Houle thanone, though fubordinate one to the other. Is this your common Judgment ? May I fay there- fore that this is other mens belief? You know that when we alledge the fayings of your molt Learned Writers, we are ordinarily tcld, that it is not the.judgment of par- ticular Donors, but of the Çhurch in Councils, which we muff call your Churches judgment. You under- take not to juffifie any more. And if I talk with. D any
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