But if you would have All cut o[…] or banished, 1. It will be a greater loss to the King and to the Conformists left behind, than ten more Oaths or Ceremonies will countervail. 2. It will but send many beyond Sea to defame you by their sufferings. 3. All foreign nations that favour their cause, will the more abhor you. 4. As Tertullian faith, dumb solitudinem faciunt, pacem vocant; you will but make desolation and solitude, though you may call it Unity and peace: you cannot indeed do what you think to do: For thousands that will stretch their Consciences to conform, will hate you and your ways the more, and will be but such as were formerly called Conformable Puritans; and will have the more advantage to supplant you, by standing so much nearer to you. You know what a Conformable Episcopal Parliament did; and you know what an Assembly of Conformable Divines did, not long ago. 5. And if you could cut them all off, you cannot prevent the resurrection of them in their posterity. If ever blood would have extirpated dissenters, the Waldenses and Albigenses had been rooted ⟨p. 178⟩out; when Historians tell us of so many hundred thousand killed, as is almost incredible. 6. The histories of cruelties are one of the greatest increasers of the party for the time to come, in other lands and Generations. 7. And lastly, it is such kind of fame that it leaveth upon the agents, that few men that care for their surviving names, if they know it, can be willing of. It is no honour to Pilate to have his name in the Creed; nor to Herod to have his name in the Gospel; nor to Nero to have killed Peter and Paul, &c. No nor to those great Princes who killed such persons of their own Religion as Seneca, Lucan, Cicero, Demosthenes, Cato, &c. or that banished Juvenal, and many such more: Nor to the state or people that killed Socrates, &c. nor to the Athenian Tyrant from whom Solon and such others fled; no nor to the Roman Clergy that killed Savonarola, and tortured Campanella, and imprisoned Galilaeus and many the like: seeing, as Sir Walter Raleigh noteth (though not to his own escape) that Learning it self (and if joined with great piety, much more) doth leave so great veneration on the minds of men, that though the owners of them prove to be faulty, yet posterity use to have dishonouring thoughts of those by whom they suffer.
But if you would have All cut o〈…〉 or banished, 1. It will be a greater loss to the King and to the Conformists left behind, than ten more Oaths or Ceremonies will countervail. 2. It will but send many beyond Sea to defame you by their sufferings. 3. All foreign nations that favour their cause, will the more abhorr you. 4. As Tertullian faith, dum solitudinem faciunt, pacem vocant; you will but make desolation and solitude, though you may call it Vnity and peace: you cannot indeed do what you think to do: For thousands that will stretch their Consciences to conform, will hate you and your ways the more, and will be but such as were formerly called Conformable Puritans; and will have the more advantage to supplant you, by standing so much nearer to you. You know what a Conformable Episcopal Parliament did; and you know what an Assembly of Conformable Divines did, not long ago. 5. And if you could cut them all off, you cannot prevent the resurrection of them in their posterity. If ever blood would have extirpated dissenters, the Waldenses and Albigenses had been rooted ⟨p. 178⟩out; when Historians tell us of so many hundred thousand killed, as is almost incredible. 6. The histories of cruelties are one of the greatest encreasers of the party for the time to come, in other lands and Generations. 7. And lastly, it is such kind of fame that it leaveth upon the agents, that few men that care for their surviving names, if they know it, can be willing of. It is no honour to Pilate to have his name in the Creed; nor to Herod to have his name in the Gospel; nor to Nero to have killed Peter and Paul, &c. No nor to those great Princes who killed such persons of their own Religion as Seneca, Lucan, Cicero, Demosthenes, Cato, &c. or that banished Juvenal, and many such more: Nor to the state or people that killed Socrates, &c. nor to the Athenian Tyrant from whom Solon and such others fled; no nor to the Roman Clergy that killed Sovonarola, and tortuced Campanella, and imprisoned Galilaeus and many the like: seeing, as Sir Walter Raleigh noteth (though not to his own escape) that Learning it self (and if joyned with great piety, much more) doth leave so great veneration on the minds of men, that though the owners of them prove to be faulty, yet posterity use to have dishonouring thoughts of those by whom they suffer.
