An answer to Dr. Stillingfleet's Mischief of separation being a letter written out of…An ansvver to Dr. Stillingfleet's Mischief of separation being a letter written out of…

All which arguing must suppose, if it concern us, That we are bound to be of the same Judgment with the Ministers that are and have been so and so minded, which I for my part understand not. But I perceive here his intention is, having endeavoured to draw us off from our Ministers; now to move another Stone, and try if he can draw them off from us.

For the Assembly, I think it fit those that survive of them should be as much concluded by what they then determined, as this reverend Author by the Irenicum. But I know no reason that such as they never represented, nor who ever pretended to be of their Party, should be so concluded to the Worlds end. Nor do understand why even the same Party may not be as well supposed in a possibility to vary from it self in forty years, as the same man from himself in less than twenty. If they did incline to deal too hardly with their Brethren, that will not justify them who deal more hardly. 'Tis hoped such as have been so inclined, have, being smitten, and suffered the rebukes of the Almighty, repented it, and are become wiser: And when some think themselves grown wiser by prosperity, others by adversity, there is less reason to suspect the latter.

For the Assembly, I think it fit those that survive of them should be as much concluded by what they then determined, as this reverend Author by the Irenicum. But I know no reason that such as they never represented, nor who ever pretended to be of their Party, should be so concluded to the Worlds end. Nor do understand why even the same Party may not be as well supposed in a possibility to vary from it self in fourty years, as the same man from himself in less than twenty. If they did incline to deal too hardly with their Brethren, that will not justifie them who deal more hardly. 'Tis hoped such as have been so inclin'd, have, being smitten, and suffered the rebukes of the Almighty, repented it, and are become wiser: And when some think themselves grown wiser by prosperity, others by adversity, there is less reason to suspect the latter.