An humble apology for non-conformists with modest and serious reflections on the Friendly debate…

Answ. Sure I am their Charity is not so large as St. Paul's, Rom. 14. There was before th• Wars a Lady (as I have heard from Persons […] Quality) not very many years since, wrote t• the Bishop of Lincoln, on the behalf of a Nonconformist that was in trouble for some small Omission or Inconformity: To whom the Bishop replied, If the Person your Ladyship wrote for, had been a Drunkard or a Whoremonger, I could have showed him favour; but in this case, no• at all. It is marvellous to think, but so it is, that Church-Charity should not be so large as Civil. The Members of the Long Parliament, who too• the Covenant, and imposed it upon others, sit quietly in This, without having that imposed on them, the refusal whereof, might occasion their Ejectment out of the House. The Nobles and others about the Court, that were divided in the the late Wars, are soldered again, love one another, and (which is a good and pleasant thing) dwell together in Unity. The Lawyers in the Inns […] Court, unite, cement, and plead together; do not, for the old Quarrel, turn one another over the Bar, or out of Doors. The Knights and Gentlemen in the Country, that fought on several sides, are reconciled, and act together as one man for the good of his Majesty and his Kingdom, notwithstanding what passed in the late differences. Only the Ministers and Ambassadors ⟨p. 39⟩of the Gospel of Peace, who say and do not, will as yet have no peace, clapping their Wings to stir and beat up their Metal, and crowing to sound an Alarm to a Paper Combat. This is a Lamentation, and ought to be for a Lamentation. Pudet hoc opprobria nobis, &c.

Answ. Sure I am their Charity is not so large as St. Paul's, Rom. 14. There was before th• Wars a Lady (as I have heard from Persons 〈…〉 Quality) not very many years since, wrote t• the Bishop of Lincoln, on the behalf of a Nonconformist that was in trouble for some small Omission or Inconformity: To whom the Bishop replied, If the Person your Ladiship wrot for, had been a Drunkard or a Whoremonger, I could have shewed him favour; but in this case, no at all. It is marvellous to think, but so it is, that Church-Charity should not be so large as Civil. The Members of the Long Parliament, who too the Covenant, and impos'd it upon others, sit quietly in This, without having that imposed on them, the refusal whereof, might occasion their Ejectment out of the House. The Nobles and others about the Court, that were divided in the the late Wars, are sodered again, love one another, and (which is a good and pleasant thing) dwl together in Unity. The Lawyers in the Inns Court, unite, cement, and plead together; do not, for the old Quarrel, turn one another over the Bar, or out of Doors. The Knights and Gentlemen in the Countrey, that fought on seyerul sides, are reconciled, and act together as one man for the good of his Majesty and his Kingdom, notwithstanding what passed in the late differences. Onely the Ministers and Ambassadors