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CHAP. II. More of my Judgement of the Anabaptists and their Cause, with a motion to them for peace.

§. 1. I Confess that in my Book against Mr. Tombs I wrote several pages enigmatically of the offensive scandals of the Anabaptists: And they that now read them when the occasion is forgotten or unknown, will either not understand them, or think them too sharp. But in all military Controversies, no man is so meet a Judge as he that is on the ground.

§. 1. I Confess that in my Book against Mr. Tombes I wrote several pages enigmatically of the offensive scandals of the Anabaptists: And they that now read them when the occasion is forgotten or unknown, will either not understand them, or think them too sharp. But in all military Controversies, no man is so meet a Judge as he that is on the ground.

§. 2. I am almost ready to condemn my self for that and many other things past when I forget the occasion of them and the state that we were in: But I will not deny that at that time my heart felt more than I expressed, 1. When I heard Anabaptistry obtruded on the religious people, as a great and needful part of their integrity: 2. And when they that abhorred to hear of old scandals were busily making more and greater: 3. When I saw what was done against the Parliament, by them that professed to be their servants, and that the Anabaptists and their Associates were the forwardest in the work: 4. And what was done against the King, when they had thrust out the Parliament; 5. And what was done in the wars against Scotland; 6. And what orders past for sequestring all such as my self that were not for their Engagement or Keeping their days of fasting ⟨p. 217⟩