Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and…

But say, that he is to assist the Church both upon the knowledge of what the Church hath done, and the knowledge of the nature of the thing, seeing every private man hath this power to be judg of his own act, it were a great misery upon those who have power over men, to be denied this power.

But say, that he is to assist the Church both upon the knowledg of what the Church hath done, and the knowledg of the nature of the thing, seeing every private man hath this power to be judg of his own act, it were a great misery upon those who have power over men, to be denyed this power.

If it shall be said, But surely they do not agree so far, they do not come up to these six things mentioned. To that I answer, I do not in these deliver only mine own judgment, but by what I know of the judgments of all those Brethren with whom I have occasion to converse by conference both before and since; I stand charged to make it good to be their judgements also; yea, it hath been both theirs and mine for divers years, even then when we never thought to have enjoyed our our own Land again; and if it be so, then let the Lord be judg between us and our Brethren, for those loud and grievous out-cries there hath been against us in this thing.

If it shall be said, But surely they do not agree so far, they do not come up to these six things mentioned. To that I answer, I do not in these deliver only mine own judgment, but by what I know of the judgments of all those Brethren with whom I have occasion to converse by conference both before and since; I stand charged to make it good to be their judgements also; yea, it hath been both theirs and mine for divers years, even then when we never thought to have enjoyed our our own Land again; and if it be so, then let the Lord be judg between us and our Brethren, for those lowd and grievous out-cryes there hath been against us in this thing.