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

There are no tolerated sorts among us here that are more accused by all for seditiousness and rebellion when they once got some seeming strength, than the Anabaptists and the people called the fifth Monarchy men. But have they ever (even at Munster) made any such horrid slaughters in the world as the great enemies of Toleration have done? Did they ever murder 200000 people that lived peaceably at once, as the Frish Papists did? Or forty thousand if not (as some say) twice as many, as they did at the French Massacre? Or so many thousands if not millions (say some) as were killed of the Albigenses and Waldenses in France, Piedmont, Italy, Germany, &c. Or did they ever use Christians as the Inquisition hath done? Or did they ever use Emperors as Henry the fourth and fifth, and Frederick were used? Or kill two Kings successively; as Henry the third and Henry the fourth of France were killed.

There are no tolerated sorts among us here that are more accused by all for seditiousness and rebellion when they once got some seeming strength, than the Anabaptists and the people called the fifth Monarchy men. But have they ever (even at Munster) made any such horrid slaughters in the world as the great enemies of Toleration have done? Did they ever murder 200000 people that lived peaceably at once, as the Frish Papists did? Or forty thousand if not (as some say) twice as many, as they did at the French Massacre? Or so many thousands if not millions (say some) as were kill'd of the Albigenses and Waldenses in France, Piedmont, Italy, Germany, &c. Or did they ever use Christians as the Inquisition hath done? Or did they ever use Emperors as Henry the fourth and fifth, and Frederick were used? Or kill two Kings successively; as Henry the third and Henry the fourth of France were killed.

Nay did ever the Novatians, yea or the furious Prelatical Donatists make such bloody work as hath been made by Bishops, Councils and Emperors for the suppressing of dissenters? What hath been done at Alexandria, Antioch, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Rome, I have elsewhere showed. The late publisher of his travels in Egypt (Vaneslup a Roman, they say a Jesuit) tells us that Egypt is deprived of her ancient sort of inhabitants, destroyed for following Dioscorus, and that Justinian killed no less than two hundred thousand of them. I believe not his number. But if this be true, the tyrannical hereticaters are the Pikes in the pond, and a far more bloody and devouring sort of men, than most of those that they destroy as intolerable.