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§. 14. [Mr. D. [Sometime for Nonconformity (in whose tents he hath seemed to shelter himself in the storm, and with their Indulgence to come forth of his hole) and yet at length so highly to disgrace the same.

Answ. 1. Let him show you if he can, where or when I have changed my judgement about Conformity, or expressed a change since 1640? Not that I take it for a disgrace to be mutable by growing wiser: But necessity forced me so long ago to study those controversies so hard, as fixed me, and I never heard any thing since which considerably altered me therein: Which also being visible in the foresaid Dispute of Liturgy, Ceremonies, &c. written 1658. leave no cloak for this mans calumnies. See there whether I said not more for so much of Episcopacy, Liturgy and Ceremonies which I took to be lawful, than ever I have done since Bishops returned?

Answ. 1. Let him shew you if he can, where or when I have changed my judgement about Conformity, or exprest a change since 1640? Not that I take it for a disgrace to be mutable by growing wiser: But necessity forced me so long ago to study those controversies so hard, as fixed me, and I never heard any thing since which considerably altered me therein: Which also being visible in the foresaid Dispute of Liturgie, Ceremonies, &c. written 1658. leave no cloak for this mans calumnies. See there whether I said not more for so much of Episcopacy, Liturgie and Ceremonies which I took to be lawful, than ever I have done since Bishops returned?

2. But what doth he mean by [sheltering my self in a storm in their tents]? I cannot imagine what, unless sense and truth at once forsook him! When a storm fell on the Nonconformists, were their tents a likely place for shelter? Had not the Conformists tents been likelier? Did the Nonconformists shelter me? From what, and how?