The Epifile Dedicatory. affemblies, as if mens fouls were no more worth then Rats or Mice, or hurtful verrnine , it were fome noble atchievement to fend as many as may be to the Devil. Judge impartially, Whether all this be not for want of felf-dospl ? If felfifh intereft led them not to this,and if they were more tender of the Intereft of Chrift then of their own , and of mens fouls then of their flefh , it would not be thus. But the fame argument that tempts the fenfual toHell, doth tempt fuch Magi- ftrates to fet upLiberty for drawing men toHell. The wicked fell their fouls to fpare their flefh, and let go Heaven to enjoy the Liberty of finning ' - 6nd run into Hell to fcape the trouble of an holy life : And fuch Magiftrates fell the peoples fouls to fpare the flefh of thedeceivers ; and in tendernefs and mercy to their bo- dies, they dare not reftrain men from feeking their damnation. Is faith and holinefs propagated by per- fwalion, andnot by forcer Surely then Infidelity Popery and tingodlinefs , are propagated by perfwafi- on too ! Agaln I tell yon telf-love doth make fuch Rulers wifer then to grant Commiffion or Liberty to all that will , to rice their fouldiers to mutinies or re- bellion, theirwives to adultery , their children to pro- digality, or their fervants to thievery : But the love of Chrift and mens falvation is not fo thong as to fa- tisfie themwhether men fhould be hindred from railing mutinies in his Church , and from deftroying fouls ! Forfooth, they tell us that Chrift is fufficient to lo k to his own caufe. Very true ( and they {hall one day know it.) But mutt he not therefore to ch or rule by men e Is not Adultery, Murder, Theft , Rebellion , againft the Caufe of Chrift, and hislaws as well as Popery and Infidelity ? And muff they therefore be let alone '( a ) by
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