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As for his talk of [Disgracing the Nonconformists] it's true in two senses. 1. As he and I disgrace Christianity by being so ignorant and bad: 2. Or if he mean not My own Nonconformity but his, (even his Nonconformity to a great deal of truth and Christian duty and common honesty (by concatenated falsehoods), I have done my part (when constrained) to disgrace it.

As for his talk of [Disgracing the Nonconformists] it's true in two senses. 1. As he and I disgrace Christianity by being so ignorant and bad: 2. Or if he mean not My own Nonconformity but his, (even his Nonconformity to a great deal of truth and Christian duty and common honesty (by concatenated falshoods), I have done my part (when constrained) to disgrace it.

§. 15. [Sometime a friend to Calvin, and then a greater to Arminius] saith he.

Answ. 1. Did he tell the Reader where by one (in any words) I contradict the other? ⟨p. 302⟩2. But see the misery of a Sectarian spirit, that taketh it for a contradiction to be a friend to Calvin and Arminius both? He would as this inferreth, take it ill to be thought a friend to Anabaptists and Paedobaptists both, to Independents and Presbyterians and Episcopal too. But that is to such as I, the greatest duty, which to him is a shameful contradiction: When I think none Christians but Anabaptists, I will be a friend to no other as such: Men of so little a Church, must have answerably little Love: Censoriousness is a friend but unto few. 3. But by this your friendship seemeth narrower than I thought it: I thought it had extended to all the Anabaptists But they are divided into [Free-willers] and [Free-gracers] as they call them, that is, into Calvinists and Arminians: and are you a friend but unto one part of them? 4. But indeed Sir, the Controversies intended by you under these names, are not such as a man of my poor measure can fix his judgement in every young, and promise that it shall never change, nor that I can take it for a shame to grow any wiser in them, than heretofore, though perhaps your judgement changed not from your Childhood. And I hope (if what I have written may be published) to make it appear that such as you that speak evil of what you understand not, are the grievous enemies of the Churches of Christ, as to Truth, Holiness, and Peace, by your militant noise about Calvinism, and Arminianism,, stirring up contentions, and destroying Love, by making differences seem greater than they are; and laying the Churches