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§. 31. Me thinks these Professions should put off the chief matter of offence and exception against each other, as to the ill consequents of our opinions? And if sober good men would by such a mutual approach, be the more disposed to live together in love and holy peace, how easily should I bear the scorns of those Formalists that will reproach me for so much as motioning [a Peace with the Anabaptists, even in the same Communion!] Who by making it a reproach will but persuade me, that such as they are less worthy of Christian Communion than sober, pious, and peaceable Anabaptists.

§. 31. Me thinks these Professions should put off the chief matter of offence and exception against each other, as to the ill consequents of our opinions? And if sober good men would by such a mutual approach, be the more disposed to live together in love and holy peace, how easily should I bear the scorns of those Formalists that will reproach me for so much as motioning [a Peace with the Anabaptists, even in the same Communion!] Who by making it a reproach will but perswade me, that such as they are less worthy of Christian Communion than sober, pious, and peaceable Anabaptists.

§. 32. And if with the partial sort of themselves such motions of Peace be turned into matter of contempt, and they proceed in their clamours and reviling of me, as an enemy of the truth, for being against their way, I shall account it no wonder nor matter of much provocation, finding in all Sects as well as theirs, that the injudicious sort are apt to be abusively censorious, and the more mens Pride, Ignorance and uncharitableness remain, the more they will swell into self-conceit, and trouble the Church with a mistaking wrangling hurtful sort of zeal.

§. 33. And as I must needs believe as ill of some sort of Zeal as St. James hath spoken of it,