A free disputation against pretended liberty of conscience tending to resolve doubts moved

so that there be as many Saints▪ ⟨p. 253⟩as many Christs, and as many Gods manifested in the flesh, as there be Saints, for since liberty of conscience was then not professed, and was a point holden by no Reformed Church, yea not by the Church of New England, the best Reformed Church (as this man saith) but detested by all, it was presupposed that the true sense of the word of God was against it, and Independents who then did swear the Covenant knew our mind, and did swear the preservation of the Reformed Religion in the Church of Scotland in doctrine, worship and discipline against the common enemy, and they knew Presbyterial Government approves both of the censures of the Church and of the Magistrates sword against heretics, and therefore Turks and Pagans would never have sworn a Covenant to endeavour uniformity in one Religion according to the word of God, and after petition the Parliament to set up in England the widest multiformity that Satan can devise, and say they have sworn to endeavour the nearest uniformity in Religion, and yet to preach and print, and endeavour by the same Covenant, and the word of God the rule of sworn Reformation, the widest multiformity, and that the Lord should be one, and his name one in both Kingdoms, and yet that the Lord be two, or ten, and his name, that is, the manners and kinds of Religions be two and twenty, that Gods name may be divided amongst Socinians, Arians, Familists, Antinomians, Anabaptists, Seekers, Antiscripturists, Libertines, Sceptics, Enthusiasts, Brownists, Independents• this is worse then a Popish implicit faith, which we disclaim.

so that there be as many Saints▪ ⟨p. 253⟩as many Christs, and as many Gods manifested in the flesh, as there be Saints, for since liberty of conscience was then not professed, and was a point holden by no Reformed Church, yea not by the Church of New England, the best Reformed Church (as this man saith) but detested by all, it was presupposed that the true sense of the word of God was against it, and Independents who then did sweare the Covenant knew our minde, and did sweare the preservation of the Reformed Religion in the Church of Scotland in doctrine, worship and discipline against the common enemy, and they knew Presbyteriall Government approves both of the censures of the Church and of the Magistrates sword against heretickes, and therefore Turkes and Pagans would never have sworne a Covenant to endeavour uniformity in one Religion according to the word of God, and after petition the Parliament to set up in England the widest multiformity that Sathan can devise, and say they have sworne to endeavour the nearest uniformity in Religion, and yet to preach and print, and endeavour by the same Covenant, and the word of God the rule of sworne Reformation, the widest multiformity, and that the Lord should be one, and his name one in both Kingdomes, and yet that the Lord be two, or ten, and his name, that is, the maners and kinds of Religions be two and twenty, that Gods name may be divided amongst Socinians, Arrians, Familists, Antinomians, Anabaptists, Seekers, Antiscripturists, Libertines, Scepticks, Enthysiasts, Brownists, Independents this is worse then a Popish implicit faith, which we disclaim.