Secondly, Where we can Unite, n•• there in the WAY nor in the END Yet let us not Contend so as to break the Law of Brotherly Kindness among th• Children of God. Our Behaviour towards the most Wicked and Blood Persecutors, is to be full of a Christ-like Sweetness, Meekness, and Long-suffering But much more, if any, of whom it may be hoped that they have, The Root of the Matter, in them• should ever differ from us; Yea, and so far differ too as that our Communion with them in Speci•• Ordinances, comes to be broken up still there is a World of Mutual Forbearance; which we must accommodate one another with. Still that of the Apostle is to take place, Rom. 12. 10. Be Kindly Aff•ction'd one to another i• Love. We must first, Forbear to Impose one upon another. It is impossible for any but, God who form• the Spirit of man within him, to form the understandings of men, into a Belief of every Christian Doctrine•. If we shall Violently and Forcibly Compel all about us, to take in all our Schemes, we shall be a• ⟨p. 73⟩Inhumane as that Giant, who cut or •retch'd all his Lodgers, to the Exact length of the Bed, he had provided for them. Austin was very Zealous in Writing against the Errors of the Donatists; and yet he said, he had rather •e Slain by them himself, than be an Occasion that any should Persecute them to Death, for holding of those Errors. And much more, when we have confessed a thing to be in it self, Indifferent, it is a most Uncharitable thing for us to Command it as Necessary, and then assert that our Command ha's made it Necessary. Could I speak to the most Swollen Church Governor in the World, I would Ask him, First, Whether Paul were not a Church Governor, of as Great Authority as any of them all, or all of them together? Next, Whether in Pauls Days there was not a Grievous Dissension about the use of several Things that were merely Adi•pho•••s? Then, Whether an Uninspired Command of Paul would have so taken away the Indifferency of those things, as to make them no longer matters of Disputation, ⟨p. 74⟩but matters of Observation among […] Believers? And then, whether if […] were so, Paul would not have been the most Uncharitable of Men, […] have left those things, as he still d•• he still does, Undetermined? Or, certainly, others must be so, when they do Determine such things as those.
Secondly, Where we can Unite, n•• ther in the WAY nor in the END Yet let us not Contend so as to break the Law of Brotherly Kindness among th• Children of God. Our Behaviour towards the most Wicked and Blood Persecutors, is to be full of a Christ-like Sweetness, Meekness, and Long-suffering But much more, if any, of whom it may be hop'd that they have, The Root of the Matter, in them• should ever differ from us; Yea, and so farr differ too as that our Commu•ion with them in Speci•• Ordinances, comes to be broken up still there is a World of Mutual Forbearance; which we must accommodate one another with. Still that of the Apostle is to take place, Rom. 12. 10. Be Kindly Aff•ction'd one to another i• Love. We must first, Forbear to Impos• one upon another. It is impossible for any but, God who form• the Spirit of man within him, to form the understandings of men, into a Beleef of every Christian Doctrine•. If we shall Violently and Forceably Compell all about us, to take in all our Schemes, we shall be a• ⟨p. 73⟩Inhumane as that Giant, who cut or •retch'd all his Lodgers, to the Exact length of the Bed, he had provided for them. Austin was very Zealous in Writing against the Errors of the Do•atists; and yet he said, he had rather •e Slain by them himself, than be an Occasion that any should Persecute them to Death, for holding of those Errors. And much more, when we have confess'd a thing to be in it self, Indifferent, it is a most Uncharitable thing for us to Command it as Necessary, and then assert that our Command ha's made it Necessary. Could I speak to the most Swol•n Church Governour in the World, I would Ask him, First, Whether Paul were not a Church Governour, of as Great Authority as any of them all, or all of them together? Next, Whether in Pauls Days there was not a Grievous Dissension about the use of several Things that were meerly Adi•phos? Then, Whether an Uninspir'd Command of Paul would have so taken away the Indifferency of those things, as to make them no longer matters of Disputation,
