Catholic communion doubly defended by Dr. Owens, vindicator, and Richard Baxter and the state…Catholick communion doubly defended by Dr. Owens, vindicator, and Richard Baxter and the state…

Pag. 18. If you know not that the Principles of Separation were the great cause (in Armies, and elsewhere) of the subversions, and confusions, which brought us to what we have felt, I do: And you would not at once live under the fruit of it as we now do, and I yet make so light of it, as to take it for a noli me tangere, if it had cost you as many painful days and nights, as many ungrateful disputes, as many groans and tears, and as much blood as it hath done me: And how little is my part to that which England, cotland, and Ireland hath suffered, even by that cause conjunct with Pride, and Ambition, these sourty years? If I may not have leave to say as Bradford, Repent O England, you should give me leave to Repent my self, that ever I preached one Sermon with any bias of overmuch desire to please Persons of the accusing separating humour.

Pag. 18. If you know not that the Principles of Separation were the great cause (in Armies, and elsewhere) of the subversions, and confusions, which brought us to what we have felt, I do: And you would not at once live under the fruit of it as we now do, and I yet make so light of it, as to take it for a noli me tangere, if it had cost you as many painful days and nights, as many ungrateful disputes, as many groans and tears, and as much blood as it hath done me: And how little is my part to that which England, cotland, and Ireland hath suffered, even by that cause conjunct with Pride, and Ambition, these sourty years? If I may not have leave to say as Bradford, Repent O England, you should give me leave to Repent my self, that ever I preacht one Sermon with any byass of overmuch desire to please Persons of the accusing separating humour.

Pag. 19. I said of our late overturnings in England, that all this is publicly known: Many late Volumes on both sides record it: were it but Whitlock's Memorials, it were enough: The Nations ring of it (and I have oft lamented it heretofore) and you mistaking all this, feign me to say, that the passages debated in Dr. Owens Papers, and his words, were all known before; and so bestow many reproofs upon a fiction of your own.

Pag. 19. I said of our late overturnings in England, that all this is publickly known: Many late Volumes on both sides record it: were it but Whitlocks Memorials, it were enough: The Nations ring of it (and I have ost lamented it heretofore) and you mistaking all this, seign me to say, that the passages debated in Dr. Owens Papers, and his words, were all known before; and so bestow many reproofs upon a fiction of your own.