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

3. Your third untruth in point of fact, is, [that I was as guilty of stirring up and fomenting that war as any one whatsoever.] Could you possibly believe your self in this? 1. I suppose you never saw me till above ten years after I had done with Wars. 2. I suppose you lived far from me. 3. If you know whom, and what you speak of, you know that I was never of the Assembly; I never Preached to the Parliament, till the day before the King was Voted home: I was forced from home to Coventry: There it was that I did speak my Opinion, but refused their Commission as Chaplain to the Garrison. In Shropshire my Father was twice imprisoned, that never did any thing against the King; nor meddled with Wars: ⟨p. 11⟩For two Months I did something there to little purpose, and once got my father out of Prison, by causing another to be seized to redeem him; but I never took Commission, Office, or pay all that time. I never entered into the Army till after Nas•by fight, and openly declared I went thither for this purpose, To discharge my Conscience in dissuading the Soldiers from the Overturning of the Government, and to have turned them from the purpose which I perceived among them, of doing what afterwards they did. If you and others that know not what they talk of, will but ask Dr. Brian, Dr. Grew, Mr. King, or others, whom assembled, I twice consulted about it, or any Survivors of the Coventry Committee, what business I went on into the Army, you will change your mind.

3. Your third untruth in point of fact, is, [that I was as guilty of stirring up and fomenting that war as any one whatsoever.] Could you possibly believe your self in this? 1. I suppose you never saw me till above ten years after I had done with Wars. 2. I suppose you lived far from me. 3. If you know whom, and what you speak of, you know that I was never of the Assembly; I never Preached to the Parliament, till the day before the King was Voted home: I was forced from home to Coventry: There it was that I did speak my Opinion, but refused their Commission as Chaplain to the Garrison. In Shropshire my Father was twice imprisoned, that never did any thing against the King; nor medled with Wars: ⟨p. 11⟩For two Months I did something there to little purpose, and once got my father out of Prison, by causing another to be seized to redeem him; but I never took Commission, Office, or pay all that time. I never entred into the Army till after Nasby fight, and openly declared I went thither for this purpose, To discharge my Conscience in disswing the Souldiers from the Overturning of the Government, and to have turned them from the purpose which I perceived among them, of doing what afterwards they did. If you and others that know not what they talk of, will but ask Dr. Brian, Dr. Grew, Mr. King, or others, whom assembled, I twice consulted about it, or any Survivers of the Coventry Committee, what business I went on into the Army, you will change your mind.