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Show ~ t6' ) Scotland, ay, and England too formerly, as We~ as rheir own in New-Ent,land; or elfe, as he. fays in another Cafe, Book Vll. P· 96. It will be thought Gy Jome (and j.ufily too ) that thty own·it. ~tgt- P. ~8~ c. i. Certainly the Power ~( GoJlinefs is neta(p. now ~;·tevou{Jy decayed among fl4 : ~ant 10U ~emer~ber, that i, ro~r Days tbofe abormnable T~zngs tlzJ not p1e1P their Headt, that are nqlV bare-fac d among m. Obj~ A cert~in Sign of their Declenfion and growing worfe and wor[e1 as Seducers ufe to do ; bur this is no more than was often rold them by our Friends, how thty were declined from: thar Zeal and Sincerity that was in fome of t-hem, when they fled thithetr from the Perfecu.tion of the Bifhops, for Confcience-fake; bur they would nO[ hearken tO them, but hated and perfecured them, and counted rhem their Ene- Gal.4.16. mies 1 Becaufe they toltl them the Truth; and rejc.tl:ed their TdHmony,and rhe furrherDifcoveries of [he Light; bur now ir is m~nifeft, and the EffeCt~ that have followed ; and no wonder that rhey 2 Tim. rhar have only a Form of Godiinefs (and fcarce 3• S· that) but tle'lJ the Power tberc·of, fhould· decay as ro rhat ( though rhe Power of Godlinefs m~ver decays in its felf, only withdraws from fuch as RejeCt it, as they have done) and fo they grow Darker and Darker, though the Light 1hines H0r. S·3·· Brighter and Brighter: And when fuch as believe . Job 17 · 9· in it, and follow on to know the Lord, and holJ tm Ira.~.?· 2 • tbeir ·way, each one, in hi4 Uprigbtnefs-, wtzJ.k in 2 ' S· the Light of the Lord ; nor. flicking. in the Form, when the Power is departed, and· the Lord Nnmb •. 9 • withdrawn from ir; but like Iftael of Old, de- 17,18,&c. camping and going forward., when the Cloud removed from off the· Tabernacle. T-hefe are they chat f0llow rhe Lamb wherefoever he goes, and ( J.J ) ~nd will not fiay behind in rhe Form or Shadow when he deparrs and draws fqnhe.r; ·bur go fro;, Strength to Strength, and from one degree of Grace unto another, rill they appear before God in Zion Pfal. 84·7· th.e Perfe£/ion of Bumty ( our of which God bath so.z. JhmeJ) find City of our Solemnities ; even unto 1r. JIA t z· h. b b ta. 3",20o sl'.c.aun 10n, w tc cannot e removed · and unto rc ' b C . f h ,. . ' • 12).1· t e zty o t e z·vmg God, the heavenly Jerufalem and to the innumerable Company of Angels, to tb; Heb. 12, Genera~ Ajfe'!'b!y, and Church of tbe ftrft Born, which 22, 23. are wrttten m H~a:'en, .and to God the Judge of all, and to ~he ~pzrtts of.tuff; Men made perrect, &c. the Mountat.n of the Lord s Houj'e. chat is E/l ablijl/ d on the top ~f the Mountams ( that h ~v e been as Ira. z. :2, Obfiaclest in ~he way ) and exalted above the Hills of lofcy, bm dry ProfeHion, where rhe Rain ne-ver faUs : Bur hert rhe Dew de!Cends for there pf. th L d d '.1' ' • 1 · e or comman ed the Bleffing, even Life for 3 3• 3 • evermore. · ~ook II. P· 67. c. 1.. It i4 true be {Sir William l!.flltt Pbzp!) WIIS very Z:talo1fS for all Men to enjoy fuch tp .ofa L~berty .of Confczence as he judged a native Right ~onof Man~t'1d.; and he Wf!S extreamly troubled at fC'itn t the Io ver-kb uy. lm?u Zettl o'J~ ' Jr ~o me good Men , w ho 1./' o, r- L . ":eny tQ~ thttt wrong way, of reclaiming Hereticks by 1 e1je~uttOn. An(we!, That he was for Liberty of C.~nfcz ence, and agamft Per(ecution, l do not que- 1hon,. by. what I have heard of him ; bur 'rhe qu ~ lh_on IS, Wh.at Liberty of Confcience ~ris, that thef JUdge .a nattve Right of alt Ma1ikind? If fuch a Ltberty of Confcience, as for all to Worfhip God ~hey are per(u'aded in their ow1f Co;;fciences ( whiC~ ls rhc undoubred Right of all Mankind) l could never underfiand that they were for filch aLibhtr? .or that the~ would allow ir co others, if t. e!'- co~ld ~elp tr, bur _the conrrary ; as their ftl f~cuno~s m all C9.un.tnc:s where they have pre;_ I 1 1 vailed ~ ' . . . ,, ) |