( 34) from every one that doth fo ; nor from every one that thinketh not in every thing as they think, or that pray- eth in other words than they ; for no two Men in the World fhould on fuch Terms be ofone Religion They believeSocrates and Sozomen, who tell us of the great diverfity of Rites and Orders in the ancient Churches, which all confifled with the fame Religion, Faith, and Love. They abhor thePrincipleofhating, perfecuting, yea and feparating from one another for fuch differences as will unavoidably adhere to the imperfe& condition of Chriffians here on Earth._ At this time in England a confiderable part (ifnot the far greateff) of the filenced 2in1Piers are for the Primi- tiveEpifcopacy, andJame Liturgie, as you may fee in their offer of A. BifhopWher's Reduction to theKing,and their defines of a reformed Liturgie. Among the old Non-con- formi/ls, there were divers degrees : fuch as Dr. Regnolds, Mr. Perkins, Dr. Humfrey, Paul Bayn, bc. did yield to morethan forne others could do. Howcan you tell then by the name of a Puritane, what to charge any fingle Perfon with ? But it feemeth you take their Non-conformity in Gene- ral, and their temper of mind and life together. But then you greatly wrong them, and Teem not at all to know what their Religion is. There are two things whichyou fay they mifrake in 1. Their Do(trine ofImputed Righteoufnefs, and the Co- venant, and not folicitoufly endeavouring after the acqui- fition of Virtue, becaufe they truft to the Imputed Righte- oufnejs ; ] your words are too large to recite : You partly hereunworthily injure thembyafcribingto them the very opinions and words ofthe Antinomians, whom they have better confuted than ever you did. And as to their Do- t&tine
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