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

3. If I sin in repeating them, I pray you justify not that spirit that uttered them; Nor be not of the mind of the Councillor of the wicked in this age, whose policy is to persuade men to commit such heinous sins (Perjury, Lying, &c.) which sound odiously in the naming, and then no man may ever accuse them, lest he be guilty of railing, incivility, &c.

3. If I sin in repeating them, I pray you justifie not that spirit that uttered them; Nor be not of the mind of the Councellor of the wicked in this age, whose policy is to perswade men to commit such heinous sins (Perjury, Lying, &c.) which sound odiously in the naming, and then no man may ever accuse them, lest he be guilty of railing, incivility, &c.

4. Brother, a very low degree of ingenuity would have taught you to have judged such a Plea for Love, by one that in this book speaketh more against Persecuting you, than ever you read, I believe, in a Licensed book since the printing Act, to have come from no malicious persecuting intent.

Yet, as if you were so eagerly set on the Defence of the dividing scandalous miscarriages of this age, as to take it for persecution so much as to lament them, or pray against them, you gather the same conclusion from my very prayers to God, for pity to his Church that is distracted and endangered by such usage.

Yet, as if you were so eagerly set on the Defence of the dividing scandalous miscarriages of this age, as to take it for persecution so much as to lament them, or pray against them, you gather the same conclusion from my very prayers to God, for pitty to his Church that is distracted and endangered by such usage.