The man that could cure all mens Errors (and his own) and will not, is much to blame: And he that would but cannot, is little better, if he will kill all that he cannot cure; and no doubt hath greater than any of theirs uncured in himself. And what! Do I in all this take part with Ignorance, Error, Heresy or any Sin? No! he that can cure it, let him: But is he a fit person to cure it, that hath the Errors of Ungodliness, Malice, Lying, and Bloodthirstiness in himself? Or will killing men cure them? The Charity of these men saith, [Burn, hang or kill them le•t they infect others:] Ergo, say others, Kill these that far ⟨p. 19⟩so, because their Errors are the most pernicious, lest they infect others with the Asps and Dragons killing Poison. Nature teacheth Man to hate and kill Wolves, Kites, Adders, and all that live on the Blood of harmless Creatures, and to protect Sheep, Doves, and such other Creatures as cannot protect themselves. My nature grudgeth to live on the Flesh of these harmless Creatures, though God hath given them to us, but I little pity a Toad, a Snake, a Spider, or a devouring Fox: But regnante Dia•olo, where the Devil ruleth, he will have his Butchers and Shambles; and as Brutes are killed for Men, honest men shall be killed by these as for God: And because God himself will not allow the murder of the Innocent and Just and Pious, it is but calling them, Rogues and Knaves, and as Christ, an Enemy to Caesar, and as to Paul, A Ring-leader of a Sect, and Mover of Sedition among the People, (real crimes where there is real Guilt) and then they may say of them and do to them what they will, and by cheating History represent Saints as Villains to ignorant Posterity. But O blessed be the final, Just, deciding Judge; who is as at the door. The Leech's Religion, that cannot live without Blood, is against the relics of Humanity in Mankind, so much, that even they that for worldly interests comply with it, do secretly suspect it to be indeed Diabolism.
The man that could cure all mens Errours (and his own) and will not, is much to blame: And he that would but cannot, is little better, if he will kill all that he cannot cure; and no doubt hath greater than any of theirs uncured in himself. And what! Do I in all this take part with Ignorance, Error, Heresie or any Sin? No! he that can cure it, let him: But is he a fit person to cure it, that hath the Errours of Ungodliness, Malice, Lying, and Bloodthirstiness in himself? Or will killing men cure them? The Charity of these men saith, [Burn, hang or kill them le•t they infect others:] Ergo, say others, Kill these that far ⟨p. 19⟩so, because their Errours are the most pernicious, lest they infect others with the Asps and Dragons killing Poyson. Nature teacheth Man to hate and kill Wolves, Kites, Adders, and all that live on the Blood of harmless Creatures, and to protect Sheep, Doves, and such other Creatures as cannot protect themselves. My nature grudgeth to live on the Flesh of these harmless Creatures, though God hath given them to us, but I little pity a Toad, a Snake, a Spider, or a devouring Fox: But regnante Dia•olo, where the Devil ruleth, he will have his Butchers and Shambles; and as Brutes are killed for Men, honest men shall be killed by these as for God: And because God himself will not allow the murder of the Innocent and Just and Pious, it is but calling them, Rogues and Knaves, and as Christ, an Enemy to Caesar, and as to Paul, A Ring-leader of a Sect, and Mover of Sedition among the People, (real crimes where there is real Guilt) and then they may say of them and do to them what they will, and by cheating History represent Saints as Villains to ignorant Posterity. But O blessed be the final, Just, deciding Judge; who is as at the door. The Leech's Religion, that cannot live without Blood, is against the reliques of Humanity in Mankind, so much, that even they that for worldly interests comply with it, do secretly suspect it to be indeed Diabolism.
