The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness…

Will men that really have any religion forsake it for fear of any thing that you can do against them? It is not Religion if it set not God above man. When they suffer by you, will they like you or your opinions the better for hurting them? or the worse? If ever you let them out of prison, will they not come out more alienated by exasperation? If you force the timorous or hypocrites to dissemble to save the flesh, will they not hate you and your doctrine the more as that which soul and body are both oppressed by? And will not their sufferings move compassion in the people, and your cruelty alienate those that else would never have forsaken you (what a shameful thing is it to hear and read mens tragical outcries against necessary toleration (which Christianity and humanity plead for) while they are the causes of that which they exclaim against, and are furiously making it tenfold worse?) If diversity in Religion be such an evil, cause it not by your unnecessary Laws and Canons, and making engines to tear the Church in pieces, which by the ancient simplicity and commanded mutual forbearance would live in such a measure of Love and Peace, as may be here expected. Are men liker to hate you, or to plot rebellions for being gently used as men, or cruelly like slaves or dogs? Nay slaves are freemen in comparison of those that are dissenters from the Pope, if he get them in his power. Though it be but for refusing to deny belief to all mens senses, and consequently to Gods natural revelation. If you can cure all mens errors, do it (but begin at home). But killing is not curing in the sense of wise Physicians or Patients. Your way cureth error as the man that was angry with the Looking-glass for showing him his ugly face, did cure ⟨p. 273⟩it by breaking it into twenty pieces, and then it showed him twenty ugly faces for one.

Will men that really have any religion forsake it for fear of any thing that you can do against them? It is not Religion if it set not God above man. When they suffer by you, will they like you or your opinions the better for hurting them? or the worse? If ever you let them out of prison, will they not come out more alienated by exasperation? If you force the timerous or hypocrites to dissemble to save the flesh, will they not hate you and your doctrine the more as that which soul and body are both oppressed by? And will not their sufferings move compassion in the people, and your cruelty alienate those that else would never have forsaken you (what a shameful thing is it to hear and read mens tragical outcries against necessary toleration (which Christianity and humanity plead for) while they are the causes of that which they exclaim against, and are furiously making it tenfold worse?) If diversity in Religion be such an evil, cause it not by your unnecessary Laws and Canons, and making engines to tear the Church in pieces, which by the ancient simplicity and commanded mutual forbearance would live in such a measure of Love and Peace, as may be here expected. Are men liker to hate you, or to plot rebellions for being gently used as men, or cruelly like slaves or dogs? Nay slaves are freemen in comparison of those that are dissenters from the Pope, if he get them in his power. Though it be but for refusing to deny belief to all mens senses, and consequently to Gods natural revelation. If you can cure all mens errours, do it (but begin at home). But killing is not curing in the sense of wise Physicions or Patients. Your way cureth errour as the man that was angry with the Looking-glass for shewing him his ugly face, did cure