Full and easy satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…Full and easie satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…

R. Observe I pray you, that Popery is against my Religion, that is, against much of the Christian Religion; and therefore my Religion is against Popery. But I will not quarrel with you about words: When God hath Revealed to us his Will, and the Papists add their corrupting inventions, Gods Revealed Will is my Religion: your Corrupting additions are contrary to it: Call my rejecting such Corruptions and additions, by the name of my Religion Reductively (as Nihil is objectum Intellectus, & Malum Voluntatis; and as non-agere is part of obedience); or Call it no part of my Religion in the primary notion, but a Rejecting of its contraries; so we understand each other I care not. The truth is, the Rejecting of some of your errors, directly contradicting the Scripture it self, may be called part of our Religion, as the Negation of the Contrary ⟨p. 16⟩is included in the sense of an Affirmative: But your remoter additions, are contrary to our Religion, but not so directly. For instance: when the Scripture saith, There is bread after Consecration, and you say There is no bread: My Religion containeth the Assertion, that There is bread: And so includeth a contradiction to your Negative, that saith [There is none]. Now to say, that it is none of my Religion to deny your Negative, who say There is no bread, would import that It is none of my Religion which affirmeth that there is bread. Contradictions cannot both be true: Properly that word that saith There is bread is my Religion: But this word contradicteth you that say There is none. But in another instance; my Religion saith, that The Righteous shall go into life everlasting, and the rest to everlasting punishment; and tells us of a Heaven and Hell only hereafter: And you tell us of Limbus Patrum & Infantum, and of Purgatory: The Scripture enableth us by consequence to confute this: but if it did not, it were enough for me to say, It is none of my Religion, because not Revealed by God in Nature or Scripture; And as it is your Addition, so to deny it, is not directly and properly my Religion it self, but the Defence and Use of my Religion. God tells us in Scripture, that He created Heaven and Earth. If one should assert as from God, that God created ten thousand Heavens and ten thousand Earths, this is a faith of his own invention or addition, and it is enough for me to say, I have no such faith;

R. Observe I pray you, that Popery is against my Religion, that is, against much of the Christian Religion; and therefore my Religion is against Popery. But I will not quarrell with you about words: When God hath Revealed to us his Will, and the Papists add their corrupting inventions, Gods Revealed Will is my Religion: your Corrupting additions are contrary to it: Call my rejecting such Corruptions and additions, by the name of my Religion Reductively (as Nihil is objectum Intellectus, & Malum Voluntatis; and as non-agere is part of obedience); or Call it no part of my Religion in the primary notion, but a Rejecting of its contraries; so we understand each other I care not. The truth is, the Rejecting of some of your errors, directly contradicting the Scripture it self, may be called part of our Religion, as the Negation of the Contrary