TO CHAP. XXV.
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TO CHAP. XXV.
IN this 25. chapter, because I had said, as they have grown in Grace, they have grown in discerning their lawful Liberty to hear the word from the English Preachers.
IN this 25. chapter, because I had said, as they have growne in Grace, they have growne in discerning their lawfull Liberty to heare the word from the English Preachers.
He tells us, he might here engage himself in a controversy with me, but that neither the Treatise will permit: nor is there need, since it hath pleased the Father of Lights to stir up the spirit of a faithful ⟨p. 124⟩witness of his Truth, in this particular, Mr. Can, to make a large and faithful Reply to a Book printed in Mr. Robinsons name, tending to prove such a lawful Liberty.
He tels us, he might here engage himselfe in a controversie with me, but that neither the Treatise will permit: nor is there need, since it hath pleased the Father of Lights to stirre up the spirit of a faithfull ⟨p. 124⟩witnesse of his Truth, in this particular, Mr. Canne, to make a large and faithfull Reply to a Booke printed in Mr. Robinsons name, tending to prove such a lawfull Liberty.
Reply. Mr. Can is unknown unto me, and his Book also: which I have not had the Liberty to get, in these remote ends of the world. I shall willingly bestow the reading of them if they come to my hands, and God give opportunity, especially if I see the spirit of a faithful witness in them, which the Examiner extolleth. Only I am apt to think, as young men grow in years, and gifts, they will also grow up to the mellow-mildness, and softness and moderation of riper age as Mr. Robinson in many things did.