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Show CHAp, 3• .A reply to the third ('bapter of the Bloudy Tenet difcuft, JJhat zs a caufe of Confcience ip geRerall. , IN flateing of the ~eflion I propounded fomedifli~&ions for clearin~ of the Point. The 1. was this in mine Anfwer to the Lerter ofthe Ptifoner. By Perjemlion forcau{e o(Confcience, 1 concC'ive you meane, either for profeffi11gfome poiut ofDoUrine,which youbeleive in Confcience to be the Truth : or fur praliijingfome worf«, wbi,byou beleive in Confcience tobe a Religious duty. Difcuffer. This dijlinliion ir not fu/1 and compleate. For bejidu both theji,_ a m•n may be perfe•uted for caufe of Con{cience,becaufe he dare not be conJlrained to yeild obedience to fuch Doctrines and worfbips, '!' are_by,mm Invented, and Appointtd; As th~ three famous ]ewes were cafl. lllt•the fiery Furnace (in a 1lon· conformity to the whole conforming world) bfr for< the Golden Image, Dan. 3· 21.&c. Defender. Thus a man may find a knot in a Bulrufh , y<a thm a man that were difpofed might find fault with the ComfortS of God for not being full and Compleate : with the Affirmative Comforts, becaufe they doe not exprelfe the Neg•tive; aod with the Negativ~, becaufe they doe not expreffe the Affirmative. He that maketh It perftcution for caufe of Confctence, when a man is punifhed for proftfftng fuch Dolhine, which he beleiveth in Confcience to~ the truth, hemaketh it(a Pari) Perfecmion for caufe of Confct• ence , when a man is punifhed for Renouncing fuch Dotl:rion' which he bdeiveth in Confcience to be Erroneous. And he that maketh it Perfecution for caufe of Confcience , when a man is punifhcd for practifing fuch a worke, which he beleives in confdence to be a Religious duty, He maketh it no leffe Perfecution. for caufe ofCcmfcience , when a man is punifhed for not pratbfing fuch a worke, which he beleiveth in Confcience to be a lin. Chap. ~· 0 f the dijlinEiion of'lJ oEiri nes. I CHAp. 4• f./1 'IVP'J tohi~fourth fhapter toaching the diftinEiion of DoEirmes, Some fundamental/ others circumftantiall and lej]e Principal!. lN points of Ductrine (I (aid in~) .An{wer tot be Prifonm Letter) fame a" Fundament aU, rv11hout rzght beleife whereof a man CdllnOt be.fjvtd : ~titers Qr~ circumjlantiall', and leffi Princip3 f/ wherein cne ~an ma~ dijfer from another' in judgement, wit6k.t prej~dice of folva'' o? on mher part, D,ifculfer. To thiJ.difli'!Cfian (He {izitp) Tr;,uth d"feTtot- fobfiribe >fwthen thoufan~t ten thou~ndr fbould everi.Jiingly be condemntd,ye> the whole Generattonnftbe Rtghttous, who {inc. thefaUing ai:vay' have and doe Gre fu~damently concerning the tru~? matter, ConJ!it14tio~, Gc1thering 1 over'!mg of the Cburch. Andyit farre b~it frqm any piou< Breafl, ,; magme.thattbey are~otfniedBfc. ( . . " . .. Defender.. ' fi F und.amemall Doctrines are of two forts : Some ~~ld forth the bo~~·~ton ol Chriflian Re!i11ion , as the Dotl:rines of falvation "Ry (, nfl?and off•ith in his Name,Rep,ntanec from dead workes, ·~• urret!•on fwm,tfYede~d•;' andtheoiike: Ochers co~cerne the F oundauo!''of,thc Church, as the matter and forme ofir, and the ~rorrhAdj{iontts accompaning the fame: The Apoflle fpeake~h of ot t efe ortsofFoundations together Heb 6 I 2 . I fpea~c oftheformer-forc ofthefe on:!\'. r~a,rteiy.the Founda. ~uO:: or funda1nentall points ofC~rHlian -R:ligion;which who. f.:> . erteth, and· Renounceth', he renounceth alfo his owne falvaufh r. The other lDrtl·look.at as lelfe principall, in comparifon 0 dt e e, though fomeof them have a fundamentall vfe in Church foorn eerrs. ,L. Iett tewr•a s'pe.r ti,n enr _1 0 r lie f~'\tr.e fl1' on pt"~'' peu' nded ·m the Prf~ ' fi h f, nd >. to exprelfe how larrel allow~ Toleration· <ven m uc u amentall Errors , . as fubvened the Foundarion of ChriflaB. |