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

Whether this earnest prayer be a Curse? and whether it be like to that rule, to pray for them that curse us, and whether this brother himself doth not in these very words put his error into his earnest prayer, even in print, and so verify what he would so vehemently gainsay (to say nothing of the Common fame in London, that he that is famed to be the Author of these Exceptions, kept a day of Humiliation about me and my book) I leave to the Readers observation. And also whether this earnest prayer (or Curse) and this bold Appeal to God, be not profane, and rather a fruit of passion, than charitable zeal? And whether he here knew what spirit he was of?

Whether this earnest prayer be a Curse? and whether it be like to that rule, to pray for them that curse us, and whether this brother himself doth not in these very words put his error into his earnest prayer, even in print, and so verifie what he would so vehemently gainsay (to say nothing of the Common fame in London, that he that is famed to be the Author of these Exceptions, kept a day of Humiliation about me and my book) I leave to the Readers observation. And also whether this earnest prayer (or Curse) and this bold Appeal to God, be not prophane, and rather a fruit of passion, than charitable zeal? And whether he here knew what spirit he was of?

But to his Untruth I answer, 1. I protested openly that my meaning was not what ⟨p. 45⟩he affirmeth it to be; And could he know it better than I? 2. An Antinomian and Anabaptist as such, are distinct from Separatists as such: But doth it follow that therefore they may not be Separatists also that are Antinomians and Anabaptists? Though the Errors whence the Sects are denominated be various. 3. I have long ago in many books told the Papists that I mean them, as the Chief Schismatics and Sect; and Dr. Hide for the first page of his book, what I thought of him; And the Lutherans that so resist all the endeavours of Dury, Calixtus, Bergius, Lud. Crocius, and many more, in refusing Communion with the Calvinists, that I mean them; And here I profess that I mean no other party of men at all, but the Dividers of all parties whatsoever, even in the beginning of my Preface; And yet, alas, brother, did you not tremble first to publish so gross an Untruth, and when you had done, to ground your Appeal to God, and earnest prayer against me, upon it? The Lord give you a meeker spirit, and a tenderer conscience.