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Yea and where Modesty restrains men from putting all such inventions and explications in their Creed, the Devil persuades men that they being the Judgements of Godly Reverend Divines (no doubt to be Reverenced, valued and heard) it is almost as much as if it were in the Creed, and therefore whoever dissenteth must be noted with a black coal, and you must disgrace him, and avoid Communion with him as an Heretic. Hence ⟨p. 358⟩lately is your Union, Communion and the Churches Peace laid upon certain unsearchable Mysteries about Predestination, the order and objects of Gods Decrees, the manner of the Spirits secretest operations on the soul, the Nature of the Wills essential Liberty, and its power of self-determining the Divine concourse, determination or predestination of mans and all other Creatures actions, &c. that he is scarcely to be accounted a fit member for our fraternal Communion that differs from us herein. Had it not been for this one Plot, the Christian Faith had been kept pure; Religion had been one; the Church had been one; and the hearts of Christians had been more one then they are. Had not the Devil turned Orthodox, he had not made so many true Christians Heretics, as Epiphamus and Austin have enrolled in the black List: Had not the Enemy of Truth and Peace got into the Chair, and made so pathetic an Oration as to inflame the minds of the Lovers of Truth to be over-zealous for it, & to do too much, we might have had Truth and Peace to this day. Yea still, if he see any man of Experience and Moderation stand up to reduce men to the ancient simplicity, he presently seems the most zealous for Christ, and tells the unexperienced Leaders of the flocks, that it is in favour of some Heresy ⟨p. 359⟩that such a man speaks; he is plotting a Carnal Syncretism, and attempting the reconcilement of Christ and Belial; he is tainted with Popery, or Socinianism, or Arminianism, or Calvinism, or whatsoever may make him odious with those he speaks to. O what the Devil hath got by Over-doing?

Yea and where Modesty restrains men from putting all such inventions and explications in their Creed, the Devil perswades men that they being the Judgements of Godly Reverend Divines (no doubt to be Reverenced, valued and heard) it is almost as much as if it were in the Creed, and therefore whoever dissenteth must be noted with a black coal, and you must disgrace him, and avoyd Communion with him as an Heretick. Hence