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

Answ. 1. I thank you for all your admonitions;¹ but, truly, Brother, you quite mistake our controversy through your book; which is about Dividing the Churches, and destroying Love, and not whether my heart be malicious, wicked, or to be Anathematized! What if I be worse than Judas? What's that to our case in hand? 2. And time will teach you, that sin is not godly strictness nor honesty; and that he that was against your sin, might be for your strictness and your honesty.

Answ. 1. I thank you for all your admonitions;¹ but, truly, Brother, you quite mistake our controversie through your book; which is about Dividing the Churches, and destroying Love, and not whether my heart be malicious, wicked, or to be Anathematized! What if I be worse than Iudas? What's that to our case in hand? 2. And time will teach you, that sin is not godly strictness nor honesty; and that he that was against your sin, might be for your strictness and your honesty.

1. 1Whether we should mark and avoid the sins of Christians in the time and places where we live▪

2. You question whether [any man that dares write so, is serious.] This needs no answer.

3. You [believe such counsel was never given to Christians before.] Answ. 1. Alas, that any Minister or Christian should be so unexperienced! Would you not only reproach the non-Conformists, but all Protestants, and all Christians? as if none either of their Ministers or Neighbours ever counselled men to watch and escape the sins which the Religious part are guilty of, in the time and Country where they are? The Jews were before Christs time the holy peculiar people of God: And did you never read,