124. flaw Ipocq Manz fettniïpZook. VVItat if all Nonconformifts were as bad as you make them, will you therefore plead for Nonconformity and Rebellion againft God ? What an argument is this ? Nonconformills are Rebels t therefore an ungodly man needeth no repentance and converfion , or we may be Paved without a holy heart and life. Doyou think this is wife reafoning ? Do not Conformifts plead for Holies nefs'? Be you but a Godly Conformif , and I íhall re, joyce in your felicity. But, becaufe I muff love my neighbour as my felf I have three or four queftions further'to ask you ? a. Is it they that Conform in No- thing, or they that conform not in Every thing? Such a one was Chillingworth ; (And I thought you had not taken the napifts to be all Traitors, who are Noncon formifts roo. ) 2, Is it their DoErine that is Traitorous? Or is it their Hearts and Pradice contrary to their dodrine? For the former theydefie their flanderers , and chal- lenge them to cite one Confeflîon of any Deformed Church, that bath in it any difloyal dotrine. Bifhop Andrews inTortura Torti will tell you, that in this the Puritans are belied, and that they take the fame Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy , and profefs the fame Ldyalty with others. But if it be their Hearts and PraElices as contrary to their own Doctrine, are you n.ot a flanderer if you charge fuch dilTernbling on any one that you cannot prove it by ? Such charges mutt fall on particular perfons, and be proaied ; and not on parties: For what (ball notifie any mans mind but his own Profe ion , or his Pradicc ? When they readily fwear Allegiance and Loyalty, are they not to be be- lieved, till force proof confute them ? And if in. Civil Wars' you Gentlemen Lawyers and Statefmen fay this is Law, and that is Law, and entangle poor mens Conti
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