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§. 11. It is not (I say) Anabaptistry, Independency, nor any such opinion which I impute our calamities to directly: But it is (next to Church Tyranny) the spirit of separation; I mean, when men cannot so far differ in judgement from others, but a perverse zeal for their opinion as some excellent truth of God, doth instigate them to run away from those that are against it, as if they were the enemies of the truth and God, and unworthy of the Communion of such as they: which is nothing but a conjunction of Pride, Ignorance and Uncharitableness (or Malice.)

§. 11. It is not (I say) Anabaptistry, Independency, nor any such opinion which I impute our calamities to directly: But it is (next to Church Tyranny) the spirit of separation; I mean, when men cannot so far differ in judgement from others, but a perverse zeal for their opinion as some excellent truth of God, doth instigate them to run away from those that are against it, as if they were the enemies of the truth and God, and unworthy of the Communion of such as they: which is nothing but a conjunction of Pride, Ignorance and Ʋncharitableness (or Malice.)

§. 12. I have told these men that when they have spoken never so sharply against Persecutors, it is apparent that there is much of the same spirit in themselves: One saith, of Dissenters, Away with such unworthy persons out of the Ministry or out of the Country: and the other saith, Away with such unworthy persons from your Communion: And both contrary to Christs sheep-mark which is Love, and both tend to make their Brethren seem unlovely: And whom they serve by this means, whether the Prince of Love, or the Prince of Malignity, it's pity but they knew; or at least would consider of it, instead of being angry with us when we tell them of it.