Baxter - Houston-Packer Collection BV4526 .B35 1675

z z6 `Qe pop? : anoFamfíp'ook. For my part I here give you my plain profeffion that All that fear God muff honour the King, and not refiffi the higher powers, and that for Confcience fake, left they receive damnation; and that Rebellions and Treafons againft King or Kingdom , are the works of the Devil and the fief]], which all true Chriftians tnuft abhor. "El. However you cannot deny but you are a pack " of Schifmaticks ; that for a Ceremony will tear the cc Church; and fet up Conventicles of your own : And "Schifm is kin to Rebellion. P. You fhall not thus draw us away from the bu finefs in hand : I will not now difpute with you what Schifm is, who feem not to underftand it ; Becaufe it is impertinent, and tendeth but to divert us from our bu- finefs. I ask you, I. Do I perfwade your Tenant here to Schifm, or only to Repentance and a Holy life ? z. Arenot Conformifts and Nonconformifts agreed in that ? Youknow not what I am in thofe matters my fell': But fend for one able Minifter that is a Conformift, . and another that is a Nonconformift, and try whether g both agree not in the truth of all that I am perfwa- , ding him to Believe or Pra&ife. Ìi "El. The truth is, you are of fo many fees and fo `C many opinions, that he may fooner grow a Bedlam " among you, than a good Chriftian. You are of as "manyminds as men One Tub-Preacher faith, This "is the word of God, and another faith, That is the "word of God ; lcarce a whole houfe is of one Reli- " gion : And if he muft turn to any of you, how (hall " heknow which party it muft be ? Muft he be a Pref- byterian, or an Independent, or a Brownift, or an Anabaptift , or what ? How (hall he be fure which `C of all thefe is theright, that he may reft? P. S6wl,

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