A c A COMMON APOLOGIE A.GAINST THE BR 0 vV N IS TS. SECT I ON I. I!IDIP.::!!!IIIIIII!!:.JIIR.F TrHth and Peace(Zacharies twoCompanions)had met in our love, thisControverliehad neverbeen ; the reveringofthefe two bath caufed this feparation : for while fame unquiet minds have fought TruthwithoutPeace, theyhaveat once loft Truth, Peace, Love, usand themfelves. God knows how unwillingly I putmy hand ro thisunkind quarrell: No- @;~~~~~-~~ thing fo much abates the courageofaChrifrian, as to call his Brother Adverfary : We mull doe it; woe .be themen by D whom this offence commerh: Yet byhowmuch the infulrationofabrotherly enemie ismore intolerable; and the griefe ofour blelfed nlorhetl!reater for thewrong ofher own; So much more caufe I fee to break this filence : If theywill have the !aft words, they m•y not have all. For our carriage to them: They fay, when FJTe, theGod ofthe Cbaldees had devoured all the otherwooden Deities,tharCa110pi<fet uponhim aCaldron full ofwater, whofe bottome was devifed with holes flopt with wax; which no fooner felnhe Aame, but gave way to quenchingofthat furious Idoll. Ifthe fire ofinordinate zeale, conceit,comemion, haveconfi1med all other partsin the feparation, and call funh (more than Ne6~tch"'l"ezzars Furnance) from theirAmf\erdam hither; it were well ifrhewarersofourmoderation ondreafOn E could vanquilb,yeaabate it : This littleHin ofmine fl1all be (pent that way: wemay try and wilb,but not hope it: the fpiritsofrhefe men arc too well known, to admit any expelhtiou ofyeeldance. Since yet both for prevention and neceffarydefence, this rofkmufl be Llnderroken,l crave nothinr;ofmy Reader bur patience and ju£\ice, ofGod, villory to theTruth: as for favour, I wilb no more than an enemy would give again£\ himfelfe: With this confidence I enter into thefelifi"s , and turne my pen roan Adverfary, God knowcs whether more proudor weak. SEP. lt i1l11h1rdlhi8g tvenfor(ober-mindeti men in cafu ofcu•truver(ie,to ufefohtrlJ lh! tldva~llguoftlie limu : upon which whileft "''"are mounted o111iigh, tb'J ufo t• beholti Thetntrance intothc,~r.k ZacJJ.8,l9· OtiTOFt!{rnT.t:c 'PhlonPrCha!- d~ormr..Ruffor. Ecdtf.HJfl.tz. t,1.6· Vid.Tre:~ti(of }X~:$~ B.tr.
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