Sacrilegious desertion of the holy ministry rebuked, and tolerated preaching of the gospel vindicated,…Sacrilegious desertion of the holy ministery rebuked, and tolerated preaching of the gospel vindicated,…

Yea, I tell you with truth and grief, I am confident (next to mens own sin, which leaveth them to a judicial delusion,) nothing hath done more to set up Popery, and the Prelacy you dislike, than the scandalous instances of your unruliness and Church tearing humours: And that you have made more Papists, than ever you or we are like to recover. Nothing is any whit considerable that a Papist hath to say, till he cometh to your case and saith, Doth not experience tell you, that without Papal unity, and force, these people will never be ruled or united? It is you that tempt them to use fire and Fagot, that will not be Ruled nor kept in concord, by the wisest, and holyest and most self-denying Ministers on Earth. Even Ainsworth the Learnedest and Godlyest Pastor of the Separatists, though he went with them beyond Sea, and was of their opinion, and carded wool to maintain himself while he was their Teacher, yet could not keep that one separated Church in peace. And must you, even you that should be our comfort, become our shame, and break our hearts, and make men Papists by your temptation. Woe to the World, because of offences, and woe to some by whom they come.

Yea, I tell you with truth and grief, I am confident (next to mens own sin, which leaveth them to a judicial delusion,) nothing hath done more to set up Popery, and the Prelacy you dislike, than the scandalous instances of your unruliness and Church tearing humours: And that you have made more Papists, than ever you or we are like to recover. Nothing is any whit considerable that a Papist hath to say, till he cometh to your case and saith, Doth not experience tell you, that without Papal unity, and force, these people will never be ruled or united? It is you that tempt them to use fire and Fagot, that will not be Ruled nor kept in concord, by the wisest, and holyest and most self-denying Ministers on Earth. Even Ainsworth the Learnedest and Godlyest Pastor of the Separatists, though he went with them beyond Sea, and was of their opinion, and carded wooll to maintain himself while he was their Teacher, yet could not keep that one separated Church in peace. And must you, even you that should be our comfort, become our shame, and break our hearts, and make men Papists by your temptation. Woe to the World, because of offences, and woe to some by whom they come.