.C6, all our Books are ón thigNery fubjeet, whowould have thought that a matroneärti::could have been found, that would deny it in the'open face of the Sun ? Yea, one that faithhe was a Puritan, andan Univerfity Student ? Even when the poor Puritans are ruined, and huntedabout, and calf into Goals, becaufe they dare not give over preaching the neceffity ofPerfoYnal Piolinefs to falzation (for that is the rnoft ofall their Sermons that ever Iheard) dare you Rand forth with fuch an acculation as this ? as if they held no Holinel's neceffary but Imputative ? Why then are we devoted in Baptifm to the HolyChoi} ? Yea what are the very Separatiffs more accu led of, than that theywould have none but real Sain _s in theirCommunion, too far preluming to judge the Heart ? You feem a zea- lous man, though very ignorant ; I pray you ffudenot to excufe this, but let us hear that you as openly repent as you have finned. The moil of your further dealing with the Prelatick Proteftant, is to tell him that his Ritual Principles lead him to turnPapiff, or elfe he cannot answer the Puritan : I take not my felf any further fit to interpoleherein, than to tell you, that in all things truly Indifferent, there is a juíf middle between any miftaken Scruplers that hold them finful, and a Papiff that maketh them a part of his Chriffianityor Religion, and will not be of the fame Re- ligion and Church with thafe that be not of his mind, nor will willingly fuller them to preach or live. I told you that S. Paul, and the Churchesdefcribed by Socrates and Sozomen (about Eafter) were of this middle way: They neither thought Liturgies or Ceremonies fóbad (or unlawful at all,) as fome on one fide called Puritans do, nor fo nece'ffary °ato 'Make them a Partition-Wall be- tweenChurches:a d-Chttrches, or to forbidCommunion, or
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