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

EXCEPT. XXX. Answered. Y•• say [May we not justly suspect that to be bad in the worship of God, which the wicked sort do love?] Answ. I spake not of [what they love, but, what they are for;] This change of my words is unrighteous. I only advised men not to reject a good cause, because it is owned by some (or most bad persons.) And why did you not answer my instance of the Pharisees long prayers? We have had many Religious persons or sects that have of late been some against▪ Infant Baptism, some against singing Psalms, some against Ministry, and Church-meetings, and some against Sacraments, and instituted Ordinances, and some against Tithes and Universities, and humane Learning; (And Mr. Norton of New England told me, that with them, A Church separated from a Church, or was gathered out of it, rejecting their Pastors, and choosing unlearned men, and would receive and endure none that had humane Learning; and that Moses and Aaron (as his words were) Magistrates and Ministers went down on their knees to them with tears, and could not move them to relent unto unity, or to receive a learned Minister, nor get any answer from them, but [that is your judgement, and this is ours.] I speak his very words as near as I can possibly, spoken to old Mr. Ash and me, before his (yet living) companion Mr. Broadstreet a Magistrate of New England.) Now all this the common people are against. ⟨p. 125⟩Must we therefore be against Magistrates, Ministers, Ordinances, and all, because the common people are for them. How commonly are they against the Quakers, and the Familists, and the Infidels, and Heathens, and (with us) the Papists? Are all these therefore in the right? Let any Familist deny the Scripture, or the immortality of the soul, and the common people will be against them. Must we deny God and Christ because we live in a land where they are owned?

EXCEPT. XXX. Answered. Y•• say [May we not justly suspect that to be bad in the worship of God, which the wicked sort do love?] Answ. I spake not of [what they love, but, what they are for;] This change of my words is unrighteous. I only advised men not to reject a good cause, because it is owned by some (or most bad persons.) And why did you not answer my instance of the Pharisees long prayers? We have had many Religious persons or sects that have of late been some against▪ Infant Baptisme, some against singing Psalmes, some against Ministry, and Church-meetings, and some against Sacraments, and instituted Ordinances, and some against Tythes and Universities, and humane Learning; (And Mr. Norton of New England told me, that with them, A Church separated from a Church, or was gathered out of it, rejecting their Pastors, and choosing unlearned men, and would receive and endure none that had humane Learning; and that Moses and Aaron (as his words were) Magistrates and Ministers went down on their knees to them with tears, and could not move them to relent unto unity, or to receive a learned Minister, nor get any answer from them, but [that is your judgement, and this is ours.] I speak his very words as neer as I can possibly, spoken to old Mr. Ash and me, before his (yet living) companion Mr. Broadstreet a Magistrate of New England.) Now all this the common people are against.