Chap. VII. The HISTORY ofthePuRITAN!!. 25 1 After this dedication there are one hundred and feventy- fix: erroneous K. Charles I· pafrages colleCted from fundry pamphlets printed about this time, and ~ from the reports of friends in all parts of the kingd?m, to whom he fent · for materials to fill up his book ; however the heret1cs are at length redu: ced under lixteen general heads. J. Independents, 9· Enthujiajls, 2. Brownifls, Io. Seekers, 3· Miilenaries, I I. PerfiC!ifts, 4· Antinomians, I 2. Socinians, 5. .Anabaptifls, I 3· Arians, 6. Arminiam, 14· Antitrinitariam, 7. Libertines, I 5. Antifcripturifls, !l. Familijls, I 6. Scepticks. 'The indu!hious writer might have enlarged his catalogue with papifts and prelates, deijls, ranters, beheminifts, &c. &c. or if he: had pleafed, a lefs number might have ferved his turn, for very few of thefe feCtaries were colleeted into focieties; bnt his bufinefs was to blacken the adverfaries of prefhyterian uniformity, that the parliament might crufh them by fanguinary methods. Among his herefies there are fome which do not deferve that name ; and among his errors, fome that never grew into a feet, but fell occafionally from the pen or lips of fome wild enthufiaft,. and died with the author. The independents are put at the head of the fect:aries, becau fe they were for toleration of all chriftians who agreed in the fundamentals if religion ; to prove this, which they never denied, he has collected feveral paffages out of their public prayers; one independent m~- p. 40; nifter (fays be) prayed that presbytery might be removed, and the kingdom of Chrifi fet up; another prayed two or three times, that the parliament might give liberty to tender confciences; another thanked God for the liberty if c01{ciences granted in America ; and faid , wh)', Lord, not in England? Another praybd, jince God had delivered both presby terians and independents from prelatical bondage, that theformer might not be guilty if bringing their brethren into bondage. The reader will judge of the fpirit of this writer, by the foregoing fpecimen of his performance, which I lhould not have though t worth remembring, if our church-writers had not reported the ftate of religion from his wri tings. " I kn ew Mr. Ed- Appeal, p.: " ~IJards very well (fays Fuller) my cotempo rary in ff<!feen's-College, who 58. " often was tranfported beyond due bounds with the keen nefs and eagernefs " of his fpirit, and therefore 1 havejuft caz~(e in fome things to jiJpeC! " him." He adds farther, ~.' I am moft credibly informed by fuch, who I Kkz - - . - ."am
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