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

Did you never hear or read, how superstition, •remetical and monastical lives, excessive fastings and austerities, were caused by the strictest people? Nor yet of touch not, taste not, handle not? Nor of some lawful things feigned to be unlawful? Nor yet that ever Paul wrote to the Corinthians, Galatians, &c. And Christ, by John, to six of the Asian Churches, to know and avoid the sins of Christians, together with the heretics ⟨p. 121⟩among them? Nor yet that Paul said, Act. 20. Of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away Disciples after them? Nor yet that he said, I have no man like minded, (as Timothy,) for all seek their own things, and not the things that are Jesus Christs? Nor that all forsook him at his appearing before Nero? Nor that all his Disciples forsook Christ and fled? Nor that Paul said that the Ministers of Satan transformed themselves into Ministers of Righteousness? In a word, that beside all other sins, the carnal siding and divisions which Paul reproved the Corinthians for, most ages have among the stricter sort been guilty of? Would you teach your hearers to put their doctrines or practices to a Major Vote of Professors? Do you think we know the sincere from hypocrites? Or that either hypocrites or sincere are without sin? Or that we must take no warning by good mens falls? Must we all do over again, all the faults that Religious men have done these 30 years? You make my heart grieve, Brother, to think that there should be a man among us, that thinketh the Church must be built up by such doctrines, and such means as yours?

Did you never hear or read, how superstition, •remetical and monastical lives, excessive fastings and austerities, were caused by the strictest people? Nor yet of touch not, taste not, handle not? Nor of some lawful things feigned to be unlawful? Nor yet that ever Paul wrote to the Corinthians, Galatians, &c. And Christ, by Iohn, to six of the Asian Churches, to know and avoid the sins of Christians, together with the hereticks ⟨p. 121⟩among them? Nor yet that Paul said, Act. 20