A78005:58
A vindication of Mr Burroughs, against Mr Edwards his foul aspersions, in his spreading…A vindication of Mr Burroughes, against Mr Edwards his foule aspersions, in his spreading…
A vindication of Mr Burroughs, against Mr Edwards his foul aspersions, in his spreading Gangræna, and his angry Antiapologia. Concluding with a brief declaration what the Independents would have. / By Jer: Burroughs.A vindication of Mr Burroughes, against Mr Edwards his foule aspersions, in his spreading Gangræna, and his angry Antiapologia. Concluding with a briefe declaration what the Independents would have. / By Jer: Burroughes.
London: printed for H. Overton, 1646
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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.
There is only one passage more that I shall need to take notice of in his last Book, and something he hath of it in his former, namely, my conformity in the Bishops times. This conformity he speaks of was ten years since, and though I did conform to some of the old Ceremonies, in which I acknowledge my sin; I do not cast those things off as inconvenient or discountenanced by the State only, but as sinful against Christ; yet I think there can hardly be found any Man in that Diocese where I was, who was so eyed as I was, that did conform less then I did, if he conformed at all. As for the new conformity, God kept me from it; and my sin in the old, makes me to be of the more forbearing spirit towards those who now differ from me. I see now what I did not; and I bless God I saw it before the times changed: and others, even some who scorn at new light, must acknowledge they see now what a while since they saw not; why then should they or I fly upon our Brethren, because they see not what we think we see? Oh how unbeseeming is it for such who conformed to old and new Ceremonies, now to be harsh and bitter in the least degree against their Brethren, who differ from them, when they do differ so much from what they were themselves but a while since I some of them know I ⟨p. 18⟩loved them as Brethren, when they conformed to that I could not, but was suspended for denying it. Let me have the same love from them as Brethren, though I cannot now conform to all they now do. True! where sins are repented of, they are to be buried, but so as sinners be willing to lye down in their shame, and walk beseeming their repentance for such sins.
There is onely one passage more that I shall need to take notice of in his last Book, and something he hath of it in his former, namely, my conformity in the Bishops times. This conformity he speaks of was ten yeeres since, and though I did conforme to some of the old Ceremonies, in which I acknowledge my sinne; I doe not cast those things off as inconvenient or discountenanced by the State onely, but as sinfull against Christ; yet I think there can hardly be found any Man in that Diocesse where I was, who was so eyed as I was, that did conforme lesse then I did, if he conformed at all. As for the new conformity, God kept me from it; and my sinne in the old, makes me to be of the more forbearing spirit towards those who now differ from me. I see now what I did not; and I blesse God I saw it before the times changed: and others, even some who scorne at new light, must acknowledge they see now what a while since they saw not; why then should they or I fly upon our Brethren, because they see not what we think we see? Oh how unbeseeming is it for such who conformed to old and new Ceremonies, now to be harsh and bitter in the least degree against their Brethren, who differ from them, when they doe differ so much from what they were themselves but a while since I some of them know I