Cain and Abel malignity that is, enmity to serious godliness, that is, to an…

And because it easeth their minds by vent, and by keeping up some hopes that they may be saved without this serious Godliness themselves, they cherish a conceit that the persons that herein differ from them are as bad, if not much worse than others; and gladly hear those that slander and deride them: Such Company, such Pamphlets, such Sermons please them. And to make them odious, they have for them some contemptuous, scornful Nickname; which, though it be of no signification, is as effectual as the truest charge. Among the Roman Sects, do but call a man a Heretic, or Schismatic, a Lutheran, a Calvinist, a Zwinglian; and elsewhere do but call him a Sectary, a Schismatic, a Puritan, a Calvinist, a Nonconformist, an Independent, a Presbyterian, a Round-head, a Fanatic, a Whig, and it serveth the ⟨p. 40⟩turn as well as if you had proved him a proud Hypocrite, or a Rebel. And there be among the real Schismatics also some persons, that if you do but call a man Episcopal, a Conformist, an Arminian, a Church of England man, that goeth to the Common-Prayer, they think that he must needs be a Temporizer, Graceless or Dangerously unsound.

And because it easeth their minds by vent, and by keeping up some hopes that they may be saved without this serious Godliness themselves, they cherish a conceit that the persons that herein differ from them are as bad, if not much worse than others; and gladly hear those that slander and deride them: Such Company, such Pamphlets, such Sermons please them. And to make them odious, they have for them some contemptuous, scornful Nickname; which, though it be of no signification, is as effectual as the truest charge. Among the Roman Sects, do but call a man a Heretick, or Schismatick, a Lutheran, a Calvinist, a Zwinglian; and elsewhere do but call him a Sectary, a Schismatick, a Puritan, a Calvinist, a Nonconformist, an Independant, a Presbyterian, a Round-head, a Fanatick, a Whig, and it serveth the ⟨p. 40⟩turn as well as if you had proved him a proud Hypocrite, or a Rebel. And there be among the real Schismaticks also some persons, that if you do but call a man Episcopal, a Conformist, an Arminian, a Church of England man, that goeth to the Common-Prayer, they think that he must needs be a Temporizer, Graceless or Dangerously unsound.