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Show B~havio.ur of t.he other, which was mo~ Iike1~ t6 be Mad, the harmlefs Sufferers, or rheu cruel Perfecurors. . f . Book Vli. Ch. r. He gives a CharaCler o thetr ~~ dt Church-Member's,. by rd.ll~g {he Temptati~ns .Cas c:.rg he calls them) wzth wi:Jtch the Churches ·of New-t'- attit..otlnllSP:=S England have · been exerci·f ed ; Whl·C l ll:. 1 1 lllews t le antl got= Differences rha have been am~ng them, afrer a • r.· rl 111·ange m:tnner and about the imallefi matrers, btllOU;r,JI H ' ' . . • . h ,r; as the re-buildi·ng' and removmg_ rJ{ LVleetmg ouJ eJ~ has unfitted the Neighbour! for liftzng up pzm! hand.r '1JJitbout Wrath in thofe HoujeJ-encl(l(ing of Commons hath made Nt:ighbours that fhoulcl have ~em like Sheep, to bite tmd derr.~o~~ o1~e another-rlijpofal of little matters in the Mtlztta, hers macle Pe&ple ~lmofl ready to fall ap~1~ one another u~ith Force of.Arn:s~ fcarce-any one-engagea muc? m the Serv~ce . of thro People, but tbey have-made zt ~n extr~-~rd~uary day of Temptation for that Man-Ltttle ptq~el betJJJeen fOme Leading· Men in a Ttnvn, have mifled all the JNeighbours far and near into mofl u1u1ccountable partymaking. Whereby we. may fee what a Church . ir is he boafis fo much of elfewhere, as a Country took I. fa {ignaliz.: rl for the Profeffion of the pureft Religion, &c. l'· I. c. 2. that differs at fuch a rate, tho • r gra~ there may be fome different Sentin1ents in ldfer maners, b~rween Members of £he fame Church; but to differ fo unaccountably, as he fays, ro be even at Daggers drawirg, as he confeffes wilh Force ~f Arms, w be ready ro Devour on~·. another, ~~ very unaccountable indeed, and omm~us w any. Church : And then on th'e one (ide ( as he fays) Rigid 11nd High-flown "!rtsbyterianJ, an~ o~ the cthn~ fide, fepar&ting Morehan 11nd Browm!hcal Inde .. pendents, ~JrJd-both-a jealo.us Eye upo~ o.ne another, 1·enders rhem far from U nny, bm dn·tded, and fo not like ro fiand, a'l Chrift faid, to be fure cannot be ch;1t stnt Church of which he is rhe Head : ( 55 ) H~ad : And which fbaJl we counr befi, Pres/;J-tertans or Independents, or whar Religion he is of, when borh are fiigmariz'd by him with the olq make-bare Terms of difiinC1ion, and the Reproaches and Calumnies which rhey (be calls Good Men ) have call one upon another, borh in rhings Civil and Religious, even in General- Coon, rhe Minijlers-cbtfl.rged witb declen{ion r;n-11 f . fr • • • rom prtmttlve rDo un d atz•o n-Work, InnrJvation in Do- \jL,-t! Jt t t Elrine tmd WorflJip, Opi11ion aml Pra8ice, Inva(ion of W.n - the Rig~ts, Liberties and Privilulges of Churches, r:::g'O Uforpatzon of a lordly prelatical Power over God's • Heritage! and :h: like Things, roo long to rehearfe, and thetr Mmtfiers Complaints, and mean and begg-arly Cqmpliance for a Maintenance as if ,r w.as a o·1r1 grace or Conrempc to Work' wirl) thetr Hands, rhe Thing rhar is honelt, as che Apollle did, that the Gofpel mighr nor be chargeable, or blamed, or he come under the Power of any Mall, which is quire comrary ro New-Englan1; all whkh fhews, that they are far ~rom bemg any true Gofpel-Church. l~td. P. ~· c. 1. He c?mpares Roger Williams 11,\.~if.. to a WintJmtll, that by hts rapid Motion was like Iiam~. to fee the. 'J.Phole Country on Fire-a Preacher that had lefs Light than Fire in him; rhar bJ.his one f~td Example preached unto them the danger of that Evit, -Rom. I o. 2. • . They have a Zeal, but 11ot accordinU"· to Knowledge (which may fiand for the Chara~ ~er of molt of them.) Yer p. 9·. c. 1. commends hu~ (tho' f~1ch .a Wind mil) for his Oppofirion agamfl the 0fakers,. '!'ainta~ning the main Principles of. the P~oteflant Reltgzon, wtth much Vigour, in fomt Difputatto~s, whereof he afterw~rds publi.fhed a large Account, m a· Book againll G. Fox and E. Bur-roug_ hs; but char Haberdafher of [mat/ fl!!eflions, . agamft, the .PfYWer of God!inefs, as their Grear Co1- to?1 caU d htm, was anfwered by G. Fox and Jphn M m Burnj~t., |