5. That when he was chosen a Parliament man he would not answer whether he was a Minister or not; all which are notoriously untrue, and some of them, namely the two last, so remote from any thing to give a pretence or colour unto them, that I question whether Satan have impudence enough to own himself their Author; and yet from hearsays, reports, rumours, from table talk, Vox populi, and such other grounds of Reasoning this Reverend Author hath made them his own, and by such a charge, hath I presume, in the judgment of all unprejudiced men, discharged me from further attending to what he shall be prompted from the like principles to divulge, for the same end and purposes, which hitherto he hath managed, for the future. For my judgment about their ministry, and Ordination, about the nature and efficacy of Ordination, the state and power of particular Churches, my own ⟨p. 38⟩station in the ministry, which I shall at all times through the grace and assistance of our Lord Jesus Christ, freely justify against men and devils, it is so well known, that I shall not need here further to declare it: for the true nature and notion of Schism, alone by me enquired after, in this chapter, as I said, I find nothing offered thereunto: only whereas I restrained the Ecclesiastical use of the word Schism to the sense wherein it is used, in the places of Scripture, that mention it with relation to Church affairs, which that it ought not to be so, nothing but asseverations to the contrary are produced to evince; this is interpreted, to extend to all that I would allow as to the nature of Schism it self, which is most false; though I said if I would proceed no farther, I might not be compelled so to do, seeing in things of this nature we may crave allowance to think and speak with the Holy Ghost: However, I expressly comprised in my proposition all the places wherein the nature of Schism is delivered under ⟨p. 39⟩what terms or words soever.
5. That when he was chosen a Parliament man he would not answer whether he was a Minister or not; all which are notoriously untrue, and some of them, namely the two last, so remote from any thing to give a pretence or colour unto them, that I question whether Satan have impudence enough to owne himselfe their Author; and yet from hearesayes, reports, rumours, from table talk, Vox populi, and such other grounds of Reasoning this Reverend Author hath made them his owne, and by such a charge, hath I presume, in the judgment of all unprejudiced men, discharged me from further attending to what he shall be prompted from the like principles to divulge, for the same end and purposes, which hitherto he hath managed, for the future. For my judgment about their ministry, and Ordination, about the nature and efficacy of Ordination, the state and power of particular Churches, my owne ⟨p. 38⟩station in the ministry, which I shall at all times through the grace and assistance of our Lord Jesus Christ, freely justify against men and devills, it is so well knowne, that I shall not need here further to declare it: for the true nature and notion of Schisme, alone by me enquired after, in this chapter, as I said, I find nothing offerd thereunto: only whereas I restrained the Ecclesiasticall use of the word Schisme to the sense wherein it is used, in the places of Scripture, that mention it with relation to Church affaires, which that it ought not to be so, nothing but asseverations to the contrary are produced to evince; this is interpreted, to extend to all that I would allow as to the nature of Schisme it selfe, which is most false; though I said if I would proceed no farther, I might not be compelled so to do, seeing in things of this nature we may crave allowance to think and speak with the Holy Ghost: However, I expressely comprised in my proposition all the places wherein the nature of Schisme is delivered under ⟨p. 39⟩what termes or words soever.
