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Show ~f'!!~ri41~ Df Tht' :A:11tbor. OIJ.e,bffrneveld • Qf perpet4a~ :il!lprifon- dtdatnation in the Church, by the Synt>d, ment upon Us , o(p\lblication of Goods ltld ·by- their wrictngs : neither yet i~ it 4pon all Three. ft. year after,' wi.thouc granted them to clefehd their own, atldto '.~carjn~ us, fqlloyved ~Q Interpretatwn of oppugn t,he contrary opinion, othetwi(~ t}lefentenc.e, whereby. we are P!onounced chart it feemed good unto the Synbd, thtt Ttaitors. I can truly pl'ofefs' lil the th. is, urtto their Adverfaries. they are , caLl ~ence againH Me , .~any things wereftt oUt of tlie Synod and con·dcmned. Thete do...,n befide the truth ,-many .things ell· follow ctliel Decrees againil. t~e Con~re. p,~d\ydenyed by Mtf, fame; things where, gacions of the condemned opth10n,.~n~~aof I was wholly ign,orant , fom~ things tail1H Cvlleetion of Alms for the tecdtng o( "'hich I was not fo much as f.XaJnind; ofPaHots, whb being e~peld or ba11ilht fc;if.,.( was I from being ~}lowed ·a fair ftoftl their Countty , if th€y return , ar~ ~ry~l. This, aqd m,pch more ·;v,rould. be tlapt up in petpetual ptifoh, theit Accu~ ery e.videm,, if my, Anfwe~s t0. e~ery In• fcrs 'beino invited by Rewards. Conare- ~tierrogatory m my exammatton fttions ~re fcattettd more unmei'cifully ' ~ofVe t~ light ~J:\ti!~ .and fincere •, than the EdiCts would bear, by torc~,and «W~ ~r~e~~y intreat •. ~efore W6 were oftentimes not without btood, to the great p~~h~Aded , at T.rajeCfum ~h.e grief of a huge number bf very good Me~, ~Ftlh ~nd lt~letSr qf the City ; lovers of ChriGian pi~ty and of the1r "5(~ ,\V.ere kept fr.ifoners,all o~r; Coudfrey. This' is a true Relation of t~cy_,l;>eqJ..rion~, Confy.Js, Opp1dan +.that was done. Now, I profefs I can-'-. ~~ r~wovt';d, b~f9re ~hejr time·, not poffibly approve that contempt of the i~3 1~·4~ ip, a~ain{lrthemo{} faded Equity of the Hollandian States in their eft-ibll/llecf ot old by the Oa..ch.cil Decrees for a mutual Toleratio1,1, norche E~l~s of fl,'o~i,lndr ~ ~~d religioufiy COndemn at ion of the Paflors and the ve~ q1any Ages. Before the Synpd thin~ that fo\lo"''ed. All which I fup• t~~f. calf'd National) and in the po1tt'had been better ptevemcd upon fair . it., rija,(ly; l>a(lors who taught Pli~:delttna.1 terms , feeing thofe things could not be t!o~. "9nd~tionate (whom they profitable to the publick and to Prince Anno Jf$18;/ monfltants? ate put out of offic¢• MaHfice' vvhofe fafety and ·glory (if t · of-t.l'\em bemg .~moJ}c:d to the miftake not) confitls in the good Affe-ar~ requit~4 to ilpd the.\r · cauf~ &ion of the people, thofe efpecially, who t\l~jr 4~v~tfari~s.,, ~ho. ba~ . ate devoted and addiaed to their Coun- .d~~~q them, b9 .. ~htit fc~~on., tfey, fucli as l judge- them that were: caH: dc~lama z z 3 out |
