'D BC A'D. l!L red to the publique laughter ofthe vulgar~ What is this but to goe,yea to run(ifnot A to fl ie) our ofB•byl•n? But (as every man is an hearty Patron of his owne ac!tions, and it is a defperare caufe that barb no plea) you alledge our conferring in Cer<mQ· nies, and fay fiill we tarry in the fubur~?s. Grant that rhde were as ill, as an enemie can make them, or can pretend them : You are deceived, if you think the walls of Babyl•n fiand upon Ceremonies. Sub!lantiall errours are both her foundation, and frame. Thefe riruall obfervations are not fo much as Tile and Reed, rather like to fome Fane upon the roofe; for ornament,more then ufe: Nor parts ofthe building, but not neceffary appendances. Ifyou take them otherwife, you wrong the Church; ifrhus; and yet depart, you wrong it and your fdfe: As ifyou would have perfwaded LDI not to!lay inZ.1.r, becaufe it was fo neere S•d•me. I feare, ifyou had money-changers in the Temple, how ever you would have prayed, or B there, Chrilldid it, not forfaking the place,but fcourging the offenders: And the valour ofChri!lian teachers: To oppofe abufes, not to ruone away from Where fl1all you not thus find Bahyl•n? Would you haverunaway from Gelntva.,occavllcofher wafers~ Or from C~rinth, for her difmdtred love-fea!ls~ Either of the world, oryour flight is in vaine. If exp<rience ofchange reach you that you !hall find your Babyl•n every where, returne not. Compare the pla~e have left, with that you have cbofen; l(t not feare off, eming to repent overp<Jou<,rxm,cyou partiall. Loe, there is a common harbour ofallopinioos,ofall herenot a mixtur~. Here you drew in the free and cleare airo ofthe Gofpell, without that odious compofitinnof Judai{mt,<.Arri•nifme,vtndaptifmt: Th'C:re you live in the french ofthefe and more, You are unworthy ofpitie, ifyou will approve your C mifery. Say ifyou can, thatthc Church of Engl•nd (if !hewere not yours) is not an heaven to Amjlerdam. How is it then,that our gnats are hard(r to fwallow,then their camels~ and that whiles all Chrillendome magnifies our happindfe,and applauds it; your handfull ·alone, fodetells our enormities, that you ddpiCe our graces~ See whe. ther in this you make not God a lofer. The thank of all his favour~ is loll, becaufe want more : ond in the meane time, who gaines by this fequefiration, but .R1me ? How doe they infalt in this advantage, that our mothers owne children her for uncleane, that we arc daily weakned byour divifions,that the rude multitude bath fo palpableamotive to difirufi us~ Sure, you intended it not : bur, if you bad beene their hired Agent, you could not have done ourenemies greaterlervice. The God of heaven open your eyes, that you may fee the uajufiice ofthu D zcale which bath tranfported you; and turne your heart to an endeavour ofall Chrillian fatisfad:ion : otherwife, your foules !hall find too late, that ithad beene a thou. fand time. betcer to fwallowa Ceremonie then to rend a Church: yea, that even whoredomes and murders !hall abide an eafier anfwer then feparation. I haxc done, ifooely I have advifed you ofthat fearefull threatningof the Wifeman: Tt.e eye that m~ektth hi& father, ••d dt(}iftth thegwernmenl 1[hil m•thtr, the .R•vensofthe v•lley · i11u1, Andthe J"'ng Eagleseal it, • ~~~~~lll~Al~A!Allllll£!!!!1~~~~ll~l!!llllll!Allll!~tl To Sir A N D R E w As T E L E Y. E P . I I• .A di{<1ur(e •f••r dMeprep.,ati.nfordwh,and th1 "'eants ' tD f"'etttnittDI/4. Slncd fawyou,l fawmyfatherdie: How boldly and merrily did he patfethorow the gates ofdeath,as ifthey had had no terror, but much pleafure!Oh that I couldaseafily imitate, as not forget him! We know we mulhread the fame way; how happy, if, with the fame inind ~ Our life, as it gives way to death,fo mull make way for it: itwill be, thoughwewill not : it will not be happie, without our will, without ourpreparation. It is the bell and longe!lldfon, to learne ho\v to die; and of fure!l ufe: which alone ifwe rake not our, it were better not to have lived. Oh vaine lludies ofmen, how to walkethorough .R1ant fireets all day in the !hade,how to E
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