Englands duty under the present gospel liberty from Revel. III, vers. 20

Let all that are wise in Heart henceforth depose their animosities; sadly reflect on their past follies, encourage and assist the Labours of their Brethren in the Lords Harvest; and rejoice that God hath set them at liberty by ⟨image 4⟩Law, whose assistance, in so great an opportunity, is so necessary and desirable: It is against the Laws of Wisdom and Charity, to envy the Liberty, and much more the Success, of our Brethren, 1 Cor. 13. 4. If the Workmen contend and scuffle in a catching Harvest, who but the owner suffers damage by it? If after so miraculous, recent, and common a Salvation as this, we still retain our old prejudices and bitter envyings; if we smite with the Pen and Tongue when we cannot with the Hand; and study to blast the Reputations and Labours of our Brethren; and still hate those we cannot hurt. In a word, if we still bite and devour one another, we shall be devoured one of another: let us not lay the fault upon others, we our selves have been the Authors and Instruments of our own ruin; and this must be the inscription upon our Tombstone, O England, thou hast Destroyed thy Self. I am more afraid of the rooted enmity, and fixed prejudices, that are to be found in many against holiness, and the serious Professors of it; and inflexible obstinacy and dead formality in many others, (the tokens of a tremendous infatuation) than I am of all the whispered fears from other Hands, or common Enemies upon our borders.

Let all that are wise in Heart henceforth depose their animosities; sadly reflect on their past follies, encourage and assist the Labours of their Brethren in the Lords Harvest; and rejoyce that God hath set them at liberty by ⟨image 4⟩Law, whose assistance, in so great an opportunity, is so necessary and desirable: It is against the Laws of Wisdom and Charity, to envy the Liberty, and much more the Success, of our Brethren, 1 Cor. 13. 4. If the Workmen contend and scuffle in a catching Harvest, who but the owner suffers damage by it? If after so miraculous, recent, and common a Salvation as this, we still retain our old prejudices and bitter envyings; if we smite with the Pen and Tongue when we cannot with the Hand; and study to blast the Reputations and Labours of our Brethren; and still hate those we cannot hurt. In a word, if we still bite and devour one another, we shall be devoured one of another: let us not lay the fault upon others, we our selves have been the Authors and Instruments of our own ruin; and this must be the inscription upon our Toombstone, O England, thou hast Destroyed thy Self. I am more afraid of the rooted enmity, and fixed prejudices, that are to be found in many against holiness, and the serious Professors of it; and inflexible obstinacy and dead formality in many others, (the tokens of a tremendous infatuation) than I am of all the whispered fears from other Hands, or common Enemies upon our borders.