[240] n1eh fwore, and unfwore, and ·forrwore, as the powers that they were under bid them; which IDJde Abbas Vrjpergenjif,Chron p. 3)~.:.fay [Vr om– nis homo jam {it . p::rjtn-ui & prtedif!ii f.;u;moribu.r impl•,c .it Us, 'ut vix excufari pojfit qt! -fir' m his, fica: pvp 'dl<Js fie e3:' Sacerdos. And rh!lt, , afar.Jt m:m (who knoweth his own riame) who merrily de- ... rideth his adverfaries, for garhering a doubt of our fundamMtals from our differences, m1y more feelingly know one day that God wt!l not hold hirn guiLtl fs t lut taf«th hts name in v.>~,in: And may eonfider that it was no m~Jre precile a man than Corta in Crcero (de Nat. Deor.l. 1.) that would prove men did nor believe that there was a God, becaufe they durft be perjured; infi:ancing in . perjure~ and ungodly Ctlrbo: It was not a fign of Schifmaticks, but of very charicable mode– rflte men, that cou ld hear and regard fuch a per– jured Min ifhy~ a~ Vrfpergenji; faith was then in the Roman Church , efpecially in German.J, where ihe temptario lay. . , , XXU. A lit Ie after the Plague and Fire, fame Nonconformable Mi nifters about london, mer, to confider whether our aB:uall forbearance to joyn with tbe ParifhChurches in the Sacrament, might not tend to deceive men and make them belteve tllat we were for feparation from them# and took t'1eir Communion to be unlawful: ·And upon rhe Rea fons given in,thry agreed that fucn Communion was lawful and meer,when it would not do rnore harm than gaod: But becaufe at 1 tlvlt .time u ftorm W ZI S coming on men, from the A{t againft Convent ide~, and their judgment was at ainft ruining tholt: th <4 t in this rere not of !heir minds (on the reafvns aforefaid) and be-ing · credibly
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