A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and…

1. Note by this instance what an inequality ⟨p. 67⟩there may be in the ••nd••ness of mens Consciences towards mere words and forms of worship, and towards the sins which nature it self condemneth, if they study not well the wiles of Satan; when the City and Country shall have the same men that are tender Conscienced (which I commend) about a Ceremony or the fashion of their prayers, without any scruple or remorse thus receive and publish a slander or falsehood, (that I wrote against private meetings, and for Conformity, and that I Conformed) and this before they had ever seen or spoken with one man living that had seen one line of the book, or could report it to them with the least pretence of knowledge. Yea and all this against one that had given an opener testimony against Conformity, than any one man of all them that thus slandered him, as far as ever I was able to know.

1. Note by this instance what an inequality ⟨p. 67⟩there may be in the ••nd••ness of mens Consciences towards meer words and formes of worship, and towards the sins which nature it self condemneth, if they study not well the wiles of Satan; when the City and Country shall have the same men that are tender Conscienced (which I commend) about a Ceremony or the fashion of their prayers, without any scruple or remorse thus receive and publish a slander or falshood, (that I wrote against private meetings, and for Conformity, and that I Conformed) and this before they had ever seen or spoken with one man living that had seen one line of the book, or could report it to them with the least pretense of knowledge. Yea and all this against one that had given an opener testimony against Conformity, than any one man of all them that thus slandered him, as far as ever I was able to know.