2. Or if you deny not that such a thing there is, then it is yet worse in you to feign this empty loudness, or affected fervency, to be the Preaching which God owneth to the Conversion of souls, Comparatively. This is to reproach the work of Preaching and Conversion, so ill do you avoid what you injuriously impute to others, when you cry out▪ [What could Parker, &c. have spoken more reproachfully, &c. Sure you thought I had spoken against fervent preaching it self, or else you would not have talked as you do? Here also (after some mention of my Pride and Folly) you add two more gross Untruths. 1. That what I spake of individual persons without respect to any party, Conformists, non-Conformists, or Separatists, ⟨p. 110⟩and instanced in many of my own acquaintance, some of which now Conform, yea are zealous Conformists, who were the ferventest loudest Preachers that ever I knew in all my life: [If I will not tell you who they are, (alas man, did you never know such) you must think it concerns all that are at this day engaged in a Gospel separation.] Answ. Had you said [We will think so] it might1 have been true: But, 1. I had made no mention at all of separation in the whole Direction, nor intended any more than I expressed; But only meant to direct people to avoid that error in the choice of Teachers, which prepareth them for any seduction and division. 2. I had largely spoken there for affectionate Preaching. 3. I am not acquainted with very many such as in England have been known by the name of Separatists, that go no further; But those few that I do know, I take to be colder, duller Preachers, than those that are called Presbyterians by far, for the most part of them; so far was I from meaning them; But Quakers, and Fifth-Monarchy men, and some Anabaptists I know, and many revilers of the Ministry I have known, in Armies and Countries that were just such as I describe. 2. It is an untruth that you had2 no pretence of Reason for (that I can think of) that I [have left off the Lords work, and instead of helping it forwards with you, am weakening your hands, and disgracing the ⟨p. 111⟩builders.] If you mean that I preach not in the Pulpit, no more do you: If you mean3 that I have not a separated Church, I never had one (on your principles at least:) If you mean that I preach not in London, 1. I cannot if I would. 2.
2. Or if you deny not that such a thing there is, then it is yet worse in you to feign this empty loudness, or affected fervency, to be the Preaching which God owneth to the Conversion of souls, Comparatively. This is to reproach the work of Preaching and Conversion, so ill do you avoid what you injuriously impute to others, when you cry out▪ [What could Parker, &c. have spoken more reproachfully, &c. Sure you thought I had spoken against fervent preaching it self, or else you would not have talk'd as you do? Here also (after some mention of my Pride and Folly) you adde two more gross Untruths. 1. That what I spake of individual persons without respect to any party, Conformists, non-Conformists, or Separatists, ⟨p. 110⟩and instanced in many of my own acquaintance, some of which now Conform, yea are zealous Conformists, who were the ferventest loudest Preachers that ever I knew in all my life: [If I will not tell you who they are, (alas man, did you never know such) you must think it concerns all that are at this day engaged in a Gospel separation.] Answ. Had you said [We will think so] it might1 have been true: But, 1. I had made no mention at all of separation in the whole Direction, nor intended any more than I expressed; But only meant to direct people to avoid that error in the choice of Teachers, which prepareth them for any seduction and division. 2. I had largely spoken there for affectionate Preaching. 3. I am not acquainted with very many such as in England have been known by the name of Separatists, that go no further; But those few that I do know, I take to be colder, duller Preachers, than those that are called Presbyterians byfar, for the most part of them; so far was I from meaning them; But Quakers, and Fifth-Monarchy men, and some Anabaptists I know, and many revilers of the Ministry I have known, in Armies and Countreys that were just such as I describe. 2. It is an untruth that you had2 no pretence of Reason for (that I can think of) that I [have left off the Lords work, and instead of helping it forwards with you, am weakening your hands, and disgracing the ⟨p. 111⟩builders.] If you mean that I preach not in the Pulpit, no more do you: If you mean3 that I have not a separated Church, I never had one (on your principles at least:) If you mean that I preach not in London, 1. I cannot if I would. 2.
- 118 Untruth.
- 219 Untruth.
- 3Whether I have left off the Lords work.
