Now or never the holy, serious, diligent believer justified, encouraged, excited and directed, and…

I know you'll say, It is not Godliness, but singularity, or humour, or disobedience, or hypocrisy, or faction that you oppose: and perhaps you'll instance in some that are guilty of some of these, or seem so at the least.

I know you'l say, It is not Godliness, but singularity, or humour, or disobedience, or hypocrisie, or faction that you oppose: and perhaps you'l instance in some that are guilty of some of these, or seem so at the least.

But 1. I do here solemnly profess that I hate these crimes as well as you: and that it is not any part of my intention to plead for intemperance, disobedience in lawful things, for schisms, or faction, or any irregularity: And this I here put in against those that are disposed to misunderstand and misreport us, and leave it as on record to prove them slanderers, that shall accuse me of defending any such thing. And I do protest against those on the other ⟨p. 112⟩side, that will fetch encouragement for any transgression from my necessary plea for the holy industry & vigilancy of believers. And moreover, I do profess that it is only the opposers of Holiness that I mean in this Defence, and have not the least intent to intimate that any others are guilty of that crime that are not. But having premised this protestation, to prevent mistakes and false reports, I answer now to the guilty.

But 1. I do here solomnly profess that I hate these crimes as well as you: and that it is not any part of my intention to plead for intemperance, disobedience in lawful things, for schisms, or faction, or any irregularity: And this I here put in against those that are disposed to misunderstand and misreport us, and leave it as on record to prove them slanderers, that shall accuse me of defending any such thing. And I do protest against those on the other ⟨p. 112⟩side, that will fetch encouragement for any transgression from my necessary plea for the holy industry & vigilancy of believers. And moreover, I do profess that it is only the opposers of Holiness that I mean in this Defence, and have not the least intent to intimate that any others are guilty of that crime that are not. But having premised this protestation, to prevent mistakes and false reports, I answer now to the guilty.