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The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must…The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must…
The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.
London: printed for Tho. Simmons, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Before I go off, I must request the Reader, calmly and without heat to consider the Contents of this Discourse, before he censure or ⟨p. 111⟩condemn it, and that he will not take some single Sections, separate and alone, and charge them with Absurdities (which he may easily do) but consider the Whole, and compare the Parts with each other. For what in one Place is liable to Objection, may in another be freed from it. If any Man shall think fit to reply to what I have written, and doth write calmly, and with a peaceful Spirit, I shall not promise a Rejoinder, but I shall consider what he says: But if he rages, and is angry, and gives me hard words, having no cause for them, I know how to employ my time better, than in answering such Folly.
Before I go off, I must request the Reader, calmly and without heat to consider the Contents of this Discourse, before he censure or ⟨p. 111⟩condemn it, and that he will not take some single Sections, separate and alone, and charge them with Absurdities (which he may easily do) but consider the Whole, and compare the Parts with each other. For what in one Place is liable to Objection, may in another be freed from it. If any Man shall think fit to reply to what I have written, and doth write calmely, and with a peaceful Spirit, I shall not promise a Rejoynder, but I shall consider what he says: But if he rages, and is angry, and gives me hard words, having no cause for them, I know how to imploy my time better, than in answering such Folly.
And now then, I will shut up my Book with some words, which were in the Mouths of the Protestants, at the First Reformation in Italy, and may be put in the Mouths of those that Dissent from us now in England. God knows, how soon we may be made one to our cost.