Sect. 5. Thus lying down impenitently under all the crimes, false doctrines, and untruths which he published, he now puts them off as Bye-matters, and taketh on him to return to the Question, which he saith was first designedly handled between us, which he saith is, [Whether Conformity at this day upon conscientious grounds, can be defended by any, or at least with any kind of honesty, be contended for by you] Thus he will play small game no more, nor write Untruths by parcels, but let you know, that it is not one untruth shall be the substance of his discourse. If telling the Church be a duty, it is not Railing to name the sin. I therefore desire the Church to consider whether it be easy among the parties that he separateth from, or worse than they to meet with so great Impudency in forgeries. I know by equivocation almost any words may be verified; But when there is no explication adjoined, the rule of humane speech is, that Analogum per se positum stat prosignificato famosiore: that is, Analogous, (or equivocal) words put alone without an ex exposition, are to be taken in the most common or famous sense. Now the word [Conformity] in its old and usual sense doth signify, that Conformity by Subscriptions, Oaths, and Ceremonies, which distinguish the people called Non-conformists from the Conformists, who yet were notoriously distinguished from the Separatists. It's true, that it may be called Conformity, if we are baptized, if we profess Christianity, if we read the Scriptures, if we use the common Translation, if we go to hear a Sermon in public, if we use the Lords Prayer, &c. in all this we do as the Church of England doth. But this is not it that is notified by the common use of this name. Now do but ⟨p. 10⟩note the front of the man. 1. The world knoweth that I never Conformed, as the Law obligeth Ministers to do; that I lose my whole Ministerial maintenance, (much more than ever he did, all things considered) and which is a thousand times more, the liberty of my Ministry in public, because I do not conform. 2. He knoweth that I have professed in all the three Books, which he writeth against, that I neither am for Conformity, nor ever wrote for it. He knoweth how distinctly I excluded that from the Question, and stated the Question far otherwise, which I meddle with. Yet dare this man make this false profession of our difference. 3.
Sect. 5. Thus lying down impenitently under all the crimes, false doctrines, and untruths which he published, he now puts them off as Bye-matters, and taketh on him to return to the Question, which he saith was first designedly handled between us, which he saith is, [Whether Conformity at this day upon conscientious grounds, can be defended by any, or at least with any kind of honesty, be contended for by you] Thus he will play small game no more, nor write Untruths by parcels, but let you know, that it is not one untruth shall be the substance of his discourse. If telling the Church be a duty, it is not Railing to name the sin. I therefore desire the Church to consider whether it be easie among the parties that he separateth from, or worse than they to meet with so great Impudency in forgeries. I know by equivocation almost any words may be verified; But when there is no explication adjoyned, the rule of humane speech is, that Analogum per se positum stat prosignificato famosiore: that is, Analogous, (or equivocal) words put alone without an ex exposition, are to be taken in the most common or famous sense. Now the word [Conformity] in its old and usual sense doth signifie, that Conformity by Subscriptions, Oaths, and Ceremonies, which distinguish the people called Non-conformists from the Conformists, who yet were notoriously distinguished from the Separatists. It's true, that it may be called Conformity, if we are baptized, if we profess Christianity, if we read the Scriptures, if we use the common Translation, if we go to hear a Sermon in publick, if we use the Lords Prayer, &c. in all this we do as the Church of England doth. But this is not it that is notified by the common use of this name. Now do but ⟨p. 10⟩note the front of the man. 1. The world knoweth that I never Conformed, as the Law obligeth Ministers to do; that I lose my whole Ministerial maintenance, (much more than ever he did, all things considered) and which is a thousand times more, the liberty of my Ministry in publick, because I do not conform. 2. He knoweth that I have professed in all the three Books, which he writeth against, that I neither am for Conformity, nor ever wrote for it. He knoweth how distinctly I excluded that from the Question, and stated the Question far otherwise, which I meddle with. Yet dare this man make this false profession of our difference. 3.
