A vindication of some passages in a discourse concerning communion with God from the…

what if one should say it was ⟨p. 84⟩real only in this latter Expression and Engagement, that the former was only a Pretty Complement? May it not with respect unto my sense and intention (from any thing in my words or that can be gathered from them or any Circumstances of the Place) be spoken with as much regard unto Truth and Honesty? What Religion these Men are of I know not; if it be such as teacheth them these Practices and Countenanceth them in them, I openly declare that I am not of it, nor would be so for all that this World can afford. I shall have done, when I have desired him to take notice, that I not only believe and maintain the necessity of Obedience unto all the Laws, Precepts, Commands, and Institutions of the Gospel, of Universal Holiness, the Mortification of all Sin, Fruitfulness in good Works, in all that intend or design Salvation by Jesus Christ, but also have proved and confirmed my Persuasion and Assertions by better and more Cogent Arguments than any, which by his Writings he seems as yet to be acquainted withal. And unless he can prove that I have spoken or written any thing to ⟨p. 85⟩the contrary, or he can disprove the Arguments whereby I have confirmed it, I do here declare him a person altogether unfit to be dealt withal about things of this Nature, his Ignorance or Malice being Invincible; nor shall I on any Provocation ever hereafter take notice of him until he hath mended his Manners.

what if one should say it was ⟨p. 84⟩real only in this latter Expression and Engagement, that the former was only a Pretty Complement? May it not with respect unto my sence and intention (from any thing in my words or that can be gathered from them or any Circumstances of the Place) be spoken with as much regard unto Truth and Honesty? What Religion these Men are of I know not; if it be such as teacheth them these Practices and Countenanceth them in them, I openly declare that I am not of it, nor would be so for all that this World can afford. I shall have done, when I have desired him to take notice, that I not only believe and maintain the necessity of Obedience unto all the Laws, Precepts, Commands, and Institutions of the Gospel, of Universal Holiness, the Mortification of all Sin, Fruitfulness in good Works, in all that intend or design Salvation by Jesus Christ, but also have proved and confirmed my Perswasion and Assertions by better and more Cogent Arguments than any, which by his Writings he seems as yet to be acquainted withal. And unless he can prove that I have spoken or written any thing to