And why might not Luther and Caerolostadius, Zuinglius and Oecolampadius; and many Lutherans and Calvinists have lived in as much Love and Peace as Melanchthon and Erasmus and such others, if they had but had their forbearing Charity and Candour? How sweet are the Pacificatory Writings, yea and how judicious, of Junius, Ludov. Crotius, Matth. Martinius, Georg. Calixtus, Conrad. Bergius, Johannes Bergius, Paraeus, Amyraeedus, Hottonus, Testardus, Camero, Lud. Capellus, Plac•us, and (above all) Vinc. le Blank: yea and of moderate Papists, Espencaeus, Ferus, Gerson, Cassander, and especially Erasmus: And how harsh to the Lovers of Love and Peace, are such Writings as spit Fire and Brimstone, Reproach and bitter Censures, against those that be not just of their Opinions? it puts the wisest Divines hard to it, how far they may pronounce Damnation on all those Heathens, that live in Sincerity (though not in Perfection) according to that measure of the ⟨p. 17⟩notification of God's Will which they are under, that come to God in the belief that God is, and that He is the Rewarder of them that diligently seek him, and that in every Nation they that fear God and work Righteousness, and are no worse than such Righteous men, as Abraham thought even wicked Sodom had had fifty of, are accepted of him. And shall Christians damn, curse and kill all that understand not a thousand Controversies, which perhaps the destroyers as little understand; and that know not an hundred things to be indifferent or lawful, which the destroyers do but say are such?
And why might not Luther and Caerolostadius, Zuinglius and Oecolampadius; and many Lutherans and Calvinists have lived in as much Love and Peace as Melan•thon and Erasmus and such others, if they had but had their forbearing Charity and Candour? How sweet are the Pacificatory Writings, yea and how judicious, of Iunius, Ludov. Crotius, Matth. Martinius, Georg. Calixtus, Conrad. Bergius, Iohannes Bergius, Paraeus, Amyraeedus, Hottonus, Testardus, Camero, Lud. Capellus, Plac•us, and (above all) Vinc. le Blank: yea and of moderate Papists, Espencaeus, Ferus, Gerson, Cassander, and especially Erasmus: And how harsh to the Lovers of Love and Peace, are such Writings as spit Fire and Brimstone, Reproach and bitter Censures, against those that be not just of their Opinions? it puts the wisest Divines hard to it, how far they may pronounce Damnation on all those Heathens, that live in Sincerity (though not in Perfection) according to that measure of the ⟨p. 17⟩notification of God's Will which they are under, that come to God in the belief that God is, and that He is the Rewarder of them that diligently seek him, and that in every Nation they that fear God and work Righteousness, and are no worse than such Righteous men, as Abraham thought even wicked Sodom had had fifty of, are accepted of him. And shall Christians damn, curse and kill all that understand not a thousand Controversies, which perhaps the destroyers as little understand; and that know not an hundred things to be indifferent or lawful, which the destroyers do but say are such?
