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we should devote our felves again to fet places, and affemblies, and outward callings of men; planting our faith one while in the old Convocation-house, and another while in the Chappell at Westminster; when all the faith and religion that fhall be there canoniz'd, is not fufficient without plain convincement, and the charity of patient inftruction to fupple the leaft bruife of conscience, to edifie the meaneft Chriftian, who defires to walk in the Spirit, and not in the letter of human truft, for all the number of voices that can be there made; no though Harry the 7. himself there, with all his leige tombs about him, fhould lend them voices from the dead, to fwell their number. And if

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the men be erroneous who appear to be the leading fchifmaticks, what witholds us but our floth, our felf-will, and diftruft in the right caufe, that we doe not give them gentle meetings and gentle difmiffions, that we debate not and examin the matter throughly with liberall and frequent audience; if not for their fakes, yet for our own? feeing no man who hath tafted learning, but will confeffe the many waies of profiting by those who not contented with ftale receits are able to manage, and set forth new pofitions to the world. And were they but as the duft and cinders of our feet, fo long as in that notion they may yet ferve to polish and brighten the armoury of Truth, ev'n for that respect

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they were not utterly to be caft away. But if they be of those whom God hath fitted for the fpeciall use of these times. with eminent and ample gifts, and those perhaps neither among the priests, nor among the Pharifees, and we in the haft of a precipitant zeal shall make no diftinction, but resolve to ftop their mouths, because we fear they come with new and dangerous opinions, as we commonly forejudge them ere we underftand them, no leffe than woe to us, while thinking thus to defend the Gofpel, we are found the perfecutors.

There have bin not a few fince the beginning of this Parlament, both of the Presbytery and others who by their unlicen't books to the contempt of an

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Imprimatur first broke that triple ice clung about our hearts, and taught the people to fee day: I hope that none of those were the perfwaders to renew upon us this bondage which they themselves have wrought so much good by contemning. But if neither the check that Mofes gave to young Joshua, nor the countermand which our Saviour gave to young John, who was fo ready to prohibit those whom he thought unlicenc't, be not anough to admonifh our Elders how unacceptable to God their testy mood of prohibiting is, if neither their own remembrance what evill hath abounded in the Church by this lett of licencing, and what good they them felves have begun by tranfgreffing it, be

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not anough, but that they will perfwade, and execute the moft Dominican part of the Inquifition over us, and are already with one foot in the ftirrup fo active at fuppreffing, it would be no unequall diftribution in the first place to fuppreffe the fuppreffors themselves;, whom the change of their condition hath puft up, more then their late experience of harder times hath made wife.

And as for regulating the Preffe, let no man think to have the honour of advifing ye better then your felves have done in that Order publifht next before this, that no book be Printed, unleffe the Printers and the Authors name, or at least the Printers be register'd. Those

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