Of the title he prefixeth to my answer of the prisoners letter.Of the title he prefixeth to my answere of the prisoners letter.
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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.
CHAP. 2. Of the title he prefixeth to my answer of the prisoners letter.
CHAP. 2. Of the title he prefixeth to my answere of the prisoners letter.
IN printing my answer to the prisoners Letter, he prefixeth the title The answer of Mr. John Cotton of Boston in New-Englands ⟨p. 3⟩professedly maintaining Persecution for cause of Conscience.
IN printing my answer to the prisoners Letter, he prefixeth thititle The answer of Mr. John Cotton of Boston in New-Englands ⟨p. 3⟩professedly maintaining Persecution for cause of Conscience.
This Title trespasseth not only against the Creator of Christian love, which is wont to take even doubtful things in the fairest sense: but even against the Law of truth. For in the whole purport of my Answer to the Letter, both in stating the Question, and in answering Objections, I expressly profess, 1. That no man is to be persecuted at all (much less for Conscience sake:) because all persecution is oppression for Righteousness sake. 2. I Profess further, That none is to be punished for his Conscience sake, though Erroneous, unless his Errors be Fundamental, or seditiously, and turbulently promoted, and that after due conviction of Conscience: That it may appear, he is not punished for his Conscience, but for sinning against his Conscience.
This Title trespasseth not onely against the Creator of Christian love, which is wont to take even doubtfull things in the fairest sense: but even against the Law of truth. For in the whole purport of my Answer to the Letter, both in stating the Question, and in answering Objections, I expresly professe, 1. That no man is to be persecuted at all (much lesse for Conscience sake:) because all persecution is oppression for Righteousnesse sake. 2. I Professe further, That none is to be punishd for his Conscience sake, though Erroneous, unlesse his Errors be Fundamentall, or seditiously, and turbulently promoted, and that after due conviction of Conscience: That it may appeare, he is not punished for his Conscience, but for sinning against his Conscience.