TO CHAP. III.
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TO CHAP. III.
His third Chapter is taken up in answering to a Phrase in my Letter, in which I had said, I endeavoured to show him the sandiness of those grounds, upon which he had banished himself from the fellowship of all the Churches in this Country.
HIs third Chapter is taken up in answering to a Phrase in my Letter, in which I had said, I endeavoured to shew him the sandinesse of those grounds, upon which he had banished himselfe from the fellowship of all the Churches in this Countrey.
The sum of his Answer is, That his grounds were the firm rock of the Truth of Jesus, and that my endeavours to prove them sandy, are but the weak, and uncertain sand of mans Invention, which shall therefore perish, and burn like hay, or stubble; And the Rocky strength of his grounds shall appear in the Lords season, and that my self also may yet confess so much, as I have (since I came to New-England) confessed the sandiness of the grounds of many of my Practises in Old England: and the rockiness of their grounds that witnessed against me, and them: for Instance, that himself had discovered to me, and other servants of God, his grounds against the use of the Common Prayer Book: which though they then seemed sandy to me, yet since I have acknowledged to be rocky, and have seen cause so to publish to the world in my Discourse to Mr. Ball, against set forms of Prayer.
The summe of his Answer is, That his grounds were the firme rocke of the Truth of Jesus, and that my endeavours to prove them sandy, are but the weake, and uncertain sand of mans Invention, which shall therefore perish, and burne like hay, or stubble; And the Rocky strength of his grounds shall appeare in the Lords season, and that my selfe also may yet confesse so much, as I have (since I came to New-England) confest the sandinesse of the grounds of many of my Practises in Old England: and the rockinesse of their grounds that witnessed against me, and them: for Instance, that himselfe had discovered to me, and other servants of God, his grounds against the use of the Common Prayer Booke: which though they then seemed sandy to me, yet since I have acknowledged to be rocky, and have seene cause so to publish to the world in my Discourse to Mr. Ball, against set formes of Prayer.