The cure of church-divisions, or, Directions for weak Christians to keep them from being…

Secondly, Was it no persecution when many Anabaptists and Separatists made such work in England, Scotland and Ireland in Cromwels time and after as they did? When so many were turned out of the Universities for not engaging? and so many out of the Ministry? and so many out of the Magistracy & Corporation privileges? And when an Ordinance was made to cast out all Ministers who would not pray for the success of their Wars against Scotland, or that would not give God thanks for their Victories. When I have heard them profess that they believed that there were many thousand godly men, that were killed at Dunbar (to instance in no other;) and yet we were all by their Ordinance to be cast out, that would not give God thanks for this? And the execution of it was much threatened, though they did it not. And what more harsh kind of persecution could there be, than to force men to go hypocritically to God against their consciences, and take on them to beg for the success of a war which they judged unlawful, ⟨p. 257⟩and to return him a public counterfeit thanks for blood-shed; yea for the blood of thousands; and the blood of confessed godly men: When the crime which they would have forced us to (had we been so ductile as to obey them) was no less than public hypocrisy and owning such blood-guiltiness; and the penalty no less than separation from our flocks and public maintenance (though not silencing.)

Secondly, Was it no persecution when many Anabaptists and Separatists made such work in England, Scotland and Ireland in Cromwels time and after as they did? When so many were turned out of the Universities for not engaging? and so many out of the Ministry? and so many out of the Magistracy & Corporation priviledges? And when an Ordinance was made to cast out all Ministers who would not pray for the success of their Wars against Scotland, or that would not give God thanks for their Victories. When I have heard them profess that they believed that there were many thousand godly men, that were killed at Dunbar (to instance in no other;) and yet we were all by their Ordinance to be cast out, that would not give God thanks for this? And the execution of it was much threatned, though they did it not. And what more harsh kind of persecution could there be, than to force men to go hypocritically to God against their consciences, and take on them to beg for the success of a war which they judged unlawful, ⟨p. 257⟩