Universal love considered and established upon its right foundation being a serious enquiry how far charity may and ought to be extended towards persons of different judgments in matters of religion and whose principles among the several sects of Christians do most naturally lead to that due moderation required ... / Robert Barclay.
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           Love -- Religious aspects.
           Society of Friends -- Doctrines.
        
      
    
     
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           Universal
           Love
           CONSIDERED
           ,
           And
           established
           upon
           its
           Right
           Foundation
           .
           BEING
           ,
           A
           serious
           enquiry
           how
           far
           Charity
           may
           and
           ought
           to
           be
           extended
           towards
           persons
           of
           different
           Judgments
           in
           matters
           of
           RELIGION
           .
           AND
           Whose
           Principles
           among
           the
           several
           Sects
           of
           Christians
           do
           most
           naturally
           lead
           to
           that
           due
           moderation
           required
           .
           Writ
           in
           the
           Spirit
           of
           Love
           and
           Meekness
           ,
           for
           the
           removing
           of
           Stumbling-blocks
           out
           of
           the
           Way
           of
           the
           Simple
           ;
           by
           a
           lover
           of
           the
           Souls
           of
           all
           Men.
           
        
         
           Robert
           Barclay
           .
        
         
           
             1
             Joh.
             4.
             16.
             
          
           God
           is
           Love
           ,
           and
           he
           that
           dwelleth
           in
           Love
           ,
           dwelleth
           in
           God.
           
        
         
           
             1
             Jo.
             5.
             2.
             
          
           For
           this
           is
           the
           Love
           of
           God
           ,
           that
           we
           keep
           his
           Commandements
           .
        
         
           Printed
           in
           the
           Year
           ,
           1677.
           
        
      
       
         
         
         
           The
           CONTENTS
           .
        
         
           
             Sect.
             I.
             THe
             Introduction
             ,
             giving
             an
             account
             of
             the
             Authors
             experience
             in
             this
             matter
             ,
             with
             the
             Reasons
             moving
             him
             to
             treat
             thereof
             .
             p.
             I.
             
          
           
             Sect.
             II.
             The
             nature
             of
             Christian
             Love
             and
             Charity
             demonstrated
             ,
             the
             consistency
             of
             true
             Zeal
             therewith
             ;
             its
             distinction
             from
             false
             Zeal
             .
             p.
             4.
             
          
           
             Sect.
             III.
             The
             Controversie
             stated
             ,
             with
             respect
             to
             the
             different
             sort
             of
             Christians
             ;
             how
             it
             is
             to
             be
             fetcht
             from
             the
             nature
             of
             their
             Principles
             ,
             and
             not
             from
             the
             practice
             of
             particular
             persons
             .
             p.
             9.
             
          
           
             Sect.
             IV.
             An
             Examination
             of
             the
             Principles
             of
             several
             sorts
             of
             those
             called
             Christians
             ,
             compared
             with
             this
             Universal
             Love
             ,
             and
             found
             defective
             ;
             As
             1.
             
             Of
             Papists
             .
             2.
             
             Of
             Protestants
             in
             general
             .
             3.
             
             Of
             Socinians
             .
             p.
             14.
             
          
           
             Sect.
             V.
             Some
             Principles
             of
             Christianity
             proposed
             ,
             as
             they
             are
             held
             by
             a
             great
             body
             of
             People
             ,
             and
             whole
             gathered
             Churches
             in
             Great
             Brittain
             and
             Ireland
             ,
             which
             do
             very
             well
             agree
             with
             true
             Universal
             Love.
             p.
             30.
             
          
        
      
       
         
           The
           Reader
           is
           desired
           to
           Correct
           with
           his
           Pen
           these
           Mistakes
           ,
           for
           the
           better
           understanding
           of
           the
           matter
           .
        
         
           
             PAge
             3.
             line
             28
             ,
             for
          
           pretented
           ,
           read
           pretended
           ;
           
             p.
             7.
             l.
             22.
             for
          
           sar
           r.
           far
           ;
           
             l.
             29.
             for
             Saul
             David
             ,
             r.
             Saul
             .
             David
             ,
             l.
             36.
             for
          
           d●ffers
           ,
           r.
           differ
           ;
           
             p.
             8.
             l.
             35.
             for
          
           so
           that
           ,
           r.
           so
           but
           that
           ;
           
             p.
             11.
             l.
             27.
             blot
             out
          
           in
           ;
           
             p.
             13.
             l.
             16.
             for
          
           necessary
           ,
           r.
           necessarily
           ;
           
             l.
             26.
             for
          
           Improved
           ,
           r.
           disapproved
           ;
           
             p.
             14.
             l.
             2.
             for
          
           practices
           ,
           r.
           practice
           ;
           
             p.
             15.
             l.
             6.
             for
          
           has
           ,
           
             r
             ▪
          
           hast
           ;
           
             p.
             16.
             l.
             7.
             for
          
           thinking
           
             r
             ▪
          
           thinking
           ,
           
             p.
             12.
             l.
             21.
             for
          
           necessarity
           
             r
             ▪
          
           necessary
           ;
           
             p.
             18
             ,
             l.
             14.
             for
          
           bassis
           
             r
             ▪
          
           bases
           ,
           
             p.
             11
             ,
             l.
             5.
             for
          
           hinders
           r
           binder
           ;
           l.
           6.
           for
           hath
           
             r
             ▪
          
           have
           ;
           
             l.
             14
             ,
             for
          
           Comodies
           
             r
             ▪
          
           Comedies
           ;
           
             p.
             22
             ,
             l.
             31.
             for
          
           hut
           
             r
             ▪
          
           but
           ;
           
             p.
             23.
             l.
             10
             ,
             for
          
           is
           ,
           
             r
             ▪
          
           he
           is
           ;
           
             l.
             15.
             for
          
           has
           r.
           have
           ;
           
             p.
             24.
             l.
             14.
             for
          
           is
           ,
           
             r
             ▪
          
           are
           ,
           
             l.
             23.
             for
          
           Chaty
           
             r
             ▪
          
           Charity
           ;
           
             p.
             31.
             l.
             3.
             for
          
           incerted
           
             r
             ▪
          
           inserted
           ;
           32.
           
             in
             Margent
             ,
             2d
             .
             line
             r.
          
           as
           well
           in
           doctrines
           ,
           
             l.
             5.
             r
             ▪
          
           external
           band
           ;
           
             p.
             33.
             l.
             12.
             for
          
           Monites
           ,
           
             r
             ▪
          
           Mentionites
           ;
           
             p.
             35.
             l.
             21.
             for
          
           Now
           ,
           r.
           Nor
           ;
           
             p.
             36
             ,
             l.
             1.
             for
          
           recideth
           r.
           resideth
           ;
           
             p.
             39.
             l.
             12
             ▪
             for
          
           they
           ,
           r.
           it
           .
        
      
       
         
         
           Books
           lately
           Printed
           for
           a
           general
           service
           to
           the
           Truth
           .
        
         
           
             ISaac
             Penningtous
             Naked
             Truth
          
           ,
           or
           Truth
           Nakedly
           manifesting
           it self
           in
           several
           particulars
           ,
           for
           the
           removing
           of
           hindrances
           out
           of
           the
           way
           of
           the
           simple
           hearted
           ,
           that
           they
           may
           come
           to
           true
           Knowledge
           ,
           Life
           ,
           Liberty
           ,
           Peace
           ,
           and
           Joy
           in
           the
           Lord
           ,
           through
           the
           vertue
           and
           power
           of
           his
           precious
           Truth
           ,
           revealed
           and
           working
           in
           them
           ;
           by
           way
           of
           Question
           and
           Answer
           .
        
         
           
             The
             Flesh
             and
             Blood
             of
             Christ
             ,
          
           both
           in
           the
           Mystery
           and
           in
           the
           outward
           testified
           to
           ,
           by
           
             I.
             P.
          
           
        
         
           R.
           Barclay's
           Truth
           cleared
           of
           Calumnies
           .
        
         
           The
           
             Staggering
             Instability
          
           of
           the
           Pretended
           Stable-Christians
           discovered
           ,
           by
           
             R.
             B.
          
           against
           
             William
             Mitchel
          
           .
        
         
           An
           account
           of
           a
           Dispute
           between
           the
           Students
           of
           Divinity
           of
           Aberdeen
           ,
           and
           the
           People
           called
           Quakers
           ,
           by
           
             R.
             B.
             G.
             K.
          
           —
           Quakerism
           confirmed
           ,
           in
           Answer
           to
           Quakerism
           canvassed
           .
        
         
           The
           Anarchy
           of
           the
           Ranters
           ,
           and
           other
           Libertines
           ;
           the
           Hierarchy
           of
           the
           Romanists
           and
           other
           pretended
           Churches
           ;
           equally
           refused
           and
           refuted
           in
           a
           two-fold
           Apology
           ,
           for
           the
           Church
           and
           People
           of
           God
           ,
           called
           in
           derision
           ,
           Quakers
           ,
           by
           
             R.
             Barclay
          
           .
        
         
           
             G.
             Fox
          
           ,
           to
           all
           the
           Kings
           and
           Princes
           ,
           and
           Governours
           in
           the
           whole
           World.
           
        
         
           The
           Spiritual
           Man
           Christ
           Jesus
           ,
           the
           Blessed
           Seed
           ,
           Light
           of
           Life
           ,
           Purger
           of
           Conscience
           ,
           by
           
             G.
             Fox
          
           .
        
         
           —
           Christian
           Liberty
           commended
           ,
           and
           Persecution
           condemned
           .
        
         
           A
           small
           Treatise
           concerning
           Swearing
           ,
           its
           use
           in
           the
           Law
           ,
           and
           end
           in
           the
           Gospel
           ,
           by
           
             G.
             Fox
          
           .
        
         
           The
           beginning
           of
           Tythes
           in
           the
           Law
           ,
           and
           ending
           in
           the
           Gospel
           .
        
         
           A
           Testimony
           to
           all
           Masters
           of
           Ships
           and
           Sea-men
           ,
           by
           
             G.
             Fox
          
           .
        
         
           
             Thomas
             Bayles
          
           Testimony
           to
           the
           Universal
           Love
           of
           God
           in
           Christ
           Jesus
           to
           the
           Sons
           of
           Men.
           
        
         
           A
           Warning
           against
           the
           Deceit
           of
           setting
           up
           Man's
           Reason
           as
           Judge
           in
           Spiritual
           matters
           ,
           Translated
           out
           of
           Low
           Dutch
           ,
           by
           
             Stephen
             Crisp.
          
           
        
         
           Immediate
           Revelation
           not
           ceased
           ,
           by
           
             G.
             Keith
          
           .
        
         
           The
           Universal
           free
           grace
           of
           the
           Gospel
           asserted
           ,
           by
           
             G.
             Keith
          
           .
        
         
           Quakerisme
           no
           Popery
           ,
           by
           
             G.
             Keith
          
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         
         Universal
         Love
         ,
         &c.
         
      
       
         
           SECT
           .
           I.
           The
           Introduction
           .
           Giving
           an
           account
           of
           the
           Authors
           Experience
           in
           this
           Matter
           ,
           with
           the
           Reasons
           moving
           him
           to
           treat
           thereof
           .
        
         
           ALbeit
           ,
           it
           were
           very
           desirable
           that
           Man
           could
           from
           his
           very
           tender
           Age
           upwards
           receive
           so
           living
           an
           Impression
           not
           only
           of
           the
           truest
           and
           surest
           Principles
           of
           the
           Doctrines
           of
           Christ
           ,
           but
           also
           of
           the
           Life
           and
           Power
           of
           Godliness
           to
           leaven
           the
           whole
           Mind
           and
           Affections
           unto
           the
           pure
           and
           holy
           Nature
           of
           Jesus
           ;
           yet
           seeing
           that
           this
           Happiness
           befalls
           to
           few
           (
           most
           of
           Men
           being
           by
           the
           prejudice
           of
           Education
           ,
           either
           pre-possessed
           ,
           or
           defiled
           with
           wrong
           notions
           ;
           or
           else
           those
           who
           come
           to
           receive
           ,
           even
           at
           first
           ,
           a
           right
           Impression
           in
           their
           Understandings
           ,
           as
           to
           Opinion
           or
           Principle
           ,
           do
           either
           by
           the
           power
           of
           inward
           Corruption
           ,
           working
           upon
           their
           Natural
           Complexions
           ,
           or
           by
           other
           Temptations
           from
           without
           ,
           oftentimes
           fall
           exceeding
           short
           of
           this
           pure
           Life
           )
           the
           best
           way
           to
           
             Redeem
             the
             Time
          
           ,
           and
           to
           repair
           that
           Loss
           ,
           is
           from
           the
           experience
           we
           have
           had
           of
           the
           Evil
           ,
           and
           the
           Memory
           we
           retain
           of
           ,
           how
           far
           we
           have
           been
           wrong
           to
           confirm
           
           and
           strengthen
           our selves
           in
           the
           good
           now
           revealed
           and
           imbraced
           ,
           which
           by
           the
           powerful
           working
           of
           God's
           Infinite
           Goodness
           ,
           turning
           all
           to
           the
           advantage
           of
           those
           that
           love
           and
           follow
           Him
           ,
           makes
           the
           Ministry
           of
           such
           the
           more
           effectual
           ,
           as
           in
           the
           example
           of
           Paul
           and
           others
           was
           manifest
           .
        
         
           It
           being
           then
           so
           ,
           that
           the
           condition
           of
           my
           life
           hitherto
           (
           Albeit
           ,
           I
           as
           yet
           am
           but
           a
           young
           Man
           )
           gives
           me
           experience
           more
           then
           perhaps
           to
           many
           others
           ,
           to
           treat
           of
           this
           subject
           :
           Therefore
           ,
           finding
           a
           true
           freedom
           and
           liberty
           in
           my
           spirit
           ,
           I
           have
           willingly
           undertaken
           ,
           for
           the
           sake
           of
           some
           ,
           to
           write
           something
           briefly
           ,
           and
           yet
           I
           hope
           clearly
           thereof
           ,
           that
           my
           experience
           herein
           ,
           if
           the
           Lord
           will
           ,
           by
           His
           Blessing
           may
           be
           made
           useful
           to
           others
           .
        
         
           My
           first
           Education
           from
           my
           Infancy
           up
           ,
           fell
           amongst
           the
           strictest
           sort
           of
           Calvinists
           ,
           those
           of
           our
           Country
           being
           generally
           acknowledged
           to
           be
           the
           severest
           of
           that
           Sect
           in
           the
           heat
           of
           Zeal
           ,
           surpassing
           not
           only
           Geneva
           ,
           from
           whence
           they
           derive
           their
           Pedigree
           ;
           but
           all
           other
           the
           Reformed
           Churches
           abroad
           (
           so
           called
           )
           so
           that
           some
           of
           the
           French
           Protestants
           being
           upbraided
           with
           the
           fruits
           of
           this
           Zeal
           ,
           as
           it
           appeared
           in
           
             Jo.
             Knox
             ,
             Buchanan
          
           ,
           and
           others
           do
           ,
           besides
           what
           is
           peculiar
           to
           their
           Principles
           of
           this
           kind
           ,
           alledge
           the
           super-abundance
           thereof
           to
           proceed
           
             a
             fervido
             Scotorum
             Ingenio
             ,
             i.
             e.
          
           from
           the
           violent
           Complexion
           of
           our
           Country
           men
           .
           I
           had
           scarce
           got
           out
           of
           my
           Child-hood
           when
           I
           was
           by
           the
           permission
           of
           Divine
           Providence
           cast
           among
           the
           Company
           of
           Papists
           ,
           and
           my
           tender
           years
           ,
           and
           immature
           Capacity
           not
           being
           able
           to
           withstand
           and
           resist
           the
           Insinuations
           that
           were
           used
           to
           Proselite
           me
           to
           that
           way
           ;
           I
           became
           quickly
           defiled
           with
           the
           Pollutions
           thereof
           ,
           and
           continued
           therein
           for
           a
           time
           ,
           until
           it
           pleased
           God
           ,
           through
           his
           rich
           Love
           and
           Mercy
           ,
           to
           deliver
           me
           out
           of
           those
           Snares
           ,
           and
           to
           give
           me
           a
           clear
           understanding
           of
           the
           evil
           of
           that
           way
           .
           In
           both
           these
           Sects
           ,
           the
           Reader
           may
           easily
           conceive
           that
           I
           had
           abundant
           occasion
           to
           receive
           
           Impressions
           contrary
           to
           this
           principle
           of
           Love
           herein
           treated
           of
           ,
           seeing
           the
           straitness
           of
           several
           of
           their
           Doctrines
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           their
           practice
           of
           Persecution
           ,
           do
           abundantly
           declare
           how
           opposite
           they
           are
           to
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           (
           as
           shall
           hereafter
           more
           at
           large
           be
           shown
           )
           and
           Albeit
           ,
           the
           time
           it
           pleased
           God
           to
           deliver
           me
           out
           of
           these
           Snares
           ,
           I
           was
           so
           young
           ,
           that
           it
           may
           be
           presumed
           my
           Observations
           could
           be
           but
           weak
           ,
           and
           consequently
           my
           Experience
           inconsiderable
           ;
           yet
           for
           as
           much
           as
           from
           my
           very
           Child-hood
           I
           was
           very
           ambitious
           of
           Knowledge
           ,
           and
           by
           a
           certain
           felicity
           of
           Understanding
           ,
           I
           think
           I
           may
           say
           without
           Vanity
           ,
           successful
           beyond
           many
           of
           my
           Equals
           in
           Age
           ,
           though
           my
           Observations
           at
           that
           time
           were
           but
           weak
           ,
           yet
           since
           I
           have
           with
           more
           leisure
           and
           circumspection
           gathered
           thence
           so
           much
           experience
           ,
           as
           I
           am
           confident
           will
           serve
           for
           a
           sufficient
           foundation
           to
           any
           Superstructure
           I
           shall
           build
           upon
           it
           in
           this
           Treatise
           .
        
         
           The
           time
           that
           intervened
           betwixt
           my
           forsaking
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           and
           joyning
           with
           those
           ,
           with
           whom
           I
           stand
           now
           ingaged
           ,
           I
           kept
           my self
           free
           from
           joyning
           with
           any
           sort
           of
           People
           ,
           though
           I
           took
           liberty
           to
           hear
           several
           ;
           and
           my
           Converse
           was
           most
           with
           those
           that
           inveigh
           much
           against
           judging
           and
           such
           kind
           of
           severity
           ,
           seeming
           to
           complain
           greatly
           for
           want
           of
           this
           Christian
           Charity
           among
           all
           Sects
           ,
           which
           Latitude
           may
           perhaps
           be
           esteemed
           the
           other
           extream
           opposite
           to
           the
           preciseness
           of
           these
           other
           Sects
           ,
           whereby
           I
           also
           received
           an
           opportunity
           to
           know
           what
           usually
           is
           pretented
           on
           that
           side
           likewise
           ;
           and
           thence
           can
           say
           somewhat
           experimentally
           on
           that
           part
           also
           .
        
         
           As
           for
           those
           I
           am
           now
           joyned
           to
           ,
           and
           whom
           I
           justly
           esteem
           to
           be
           the
           true
           followers
           and
           Servants
           of
           Jesus
           Christ
           ,
           the
           World
           speaks
           diversly
           of
           them
           ,
           as
           to
           this
           matter
           ,
           some
           highly
           accusing
           them
           of
           the
           want
           of
           Charity
           ,
           and
           quarrelling
           with
           them
           as
           such
           who
           peremptorily
           condemn
           all
           but
           themselves
           :
           Others
           have
           a
           contrary
           conceit
           of
           them
           ,
           each
           according
           as
           they
           are
           prejudicated
           and
           informed
           .
           What
           
           may
           be
           truly
           said
           in
           the
           case
           ,
           shall
           after
           appear
           :
           I
           my self
           have
           been
           diversly
           ▪
           censured
           in
           this
           matter
           ,
           being
           ingaged
           in
           Controversie
           ,
           which
           as
           they
           can
           be
           scarcely
           handled
           without
           something
           of
           sharpness
           ,
           so
           are
           seldom
           mannaged
           by
           any
           so
           successfully
           ,
           as
           not
           to
           bear
           the
           Censure
           of
           some
           or
           other
           ,
           in
           this
           respect
           .
           Having
           then
           upon
           the
           whole
           matter
           observed
           that
           this
           want
           of
           Charity
           is
           that
           ,
           for
           the
           want
           of
           which
           ,
           each
           Sect
           accuses
           the
           other
           ,
           and
           yet
           are
           most
           averse
           to
           see
           this
           defect
           in
           themselves
           ,
           and
           that
           some
           do
           accuse
           all
           Sects
           as
           guilty
           of
           this
           Crime
           .
           I
           have
           judged
           it
           meet
           to
           commit
           my
           sence
           hereof
           to
           writing
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           purpose
           signified
           in
           the
           Title
           afore-mentioned
           .
        
      
       
         
           SECT
           .
           II.
           The
           Nature
           of
           Christian
           Love
           and
           Charity
           demonstrated
           ,
           the
           Consistancy
           of
           true
           Zeal
           therewith
           ,
           it
           's
           distinction
           from
           false
           Zeal
           .
        
         
           THe
           Nature
           of
           Christian
           Love
           and
           Charity
           is
           fully
           and
           abundantly
           described
           in
           the
           Holy
           Scriptures
           ,
           where
           it
           is
           preferred
           before
           all
           other
           Virtues
           and
           properties
           whatsoever
           ,
           as
           that
           which
           comprehendeth
           in
           it
           all
           other
           perfections
           ,
           and
           is
           the
           root
           and
           spring
           of
           them
           ,
           for
           there
           can
           be
           no
           true
           Virtue
           but
           that
           which
           proceedeth
           from
           Love
           ;
           hence
           God
           himself
           is
           called
           
             Love
             ,
             I
             Jo.
          
           4.
           7.
           as
           being
           that
           ,
           under
           which
           all
           his
           innumerable
           and
           inutterable
           perfections
           are
           included
           :
           By
           this
           Love
           we
           are
           Redeemed
           from
           the
           Corruption
           of
           our
           Nature
           ,
           and
           have
           received
           the
           benefit
           of
           a
           Mediator
           ,
           Joh.
           16.
           
           This
           is
           the
           Banner
           wherewith
           God
           covereth
           his
           Children
           ,
           Cant.
           2.
           4.
           
           This
           is
           that
           which
           
             Constrained
             our
             Lord
             Jesus
             Christ
             to
             lay
             down
             his
             Life
             for
             us
             ,
             Joh.
          
           15.
           13.
           
           The
           exercise
           of
           this
           is
           given
           by
           Christ
           as
           the
           principal
           Token
           of
           his
           Disciples
           ,
           
             Joh.
             13.
             35.
             
             It
             is
             numbered
             
             as
             the
             first
             fruit
             of
             the
             Spirit
             ,
             Gal.
             5.
             22.
             
             It
             is
             called
             the
             fulfilling
             of
             the
             Law
             ,
          
           as
           that
           ,
           
             wherein
             all
             consisteth
          
           ,
           Rom.
           13.
           10.
           
           
             For
             to
             Love
             God
             above
             all
             things
             ,
             and
             our
             Neighbour
             as
             our selves
             ,
          
           is
           the
           sum
           not
           only
           of
           the
           Law
           ,
           but
           of
           the
           Gospel
           also
           ,
           1
           Cor.
           13.
           13.
           
           Therefore
           the
           Apostle
           Paul
           giveth
           to
           this
           Love
           or
           Charity
           the
           Precedency
           before
           either
           Faith
           or
           Hope
           ;
           in
           which
           Chapter
           he
           doth
           briefly
           ,
           but
           very
           emphatically
           describe
           it
           ,
           for
           having
           first
           shewn
           that
           the
           
             speaking
             with
             Tongues
             of
             Men
          
           ,
           and
           Angels
           ,
           that
           the
           gifts
           of
           Prophesying
           ,
           Understanding
           ,
           and
           Knowledge
           ,
           that
           the
           Faith
           that
           even
           could
           remove
           Mountains
           ,
           and
           the
           giving
           of
           all
           to
           the
           Poor
           ,
           
             yea
             ,
             and
          
           the
           Body
           to
           be
           burnt
           ,
           is
           nothing
           without
           it
           :
           
             He
             proceeds
             to
             the
             description
             of
             it
             thus
             ,
          
           Charity
           suffers
           long
           ,
           is
           kind
           ;
           Charity
           envieth
           not
           ,
           Vaunteth
           not
           it self
           ,
           is
           not
           puffed
           up
           ,
           does
           not
           behave
           it self
           unseemly
           ,
           seeking
           not
           her
           own
           ,
           is
           not
           easily
           provoked
           ,
           thinketh
           no
           evil
           ,
           rejoyceth
           not
           in
           Iniquity
           ,
           but
           rejoyceth
           in
           the
           Truth
           ;
           beareth
           all
           things
           ,
           believeth
           all
           things
           ,
           hopeth
           all
           things
           ,
           endureth
           all
           things
           ,
           never
           faileth
           ,
           Albeit
           ,
           other
           gifts
           have
           ,
           1
           Cor.
           13.
           from
           the
           first
           Verse
           .
           As
           by
           this
           the
           excellency
           of
           Love
           is
           shown
           ,
           so
           the
           necessity
           of
           pressing
           after
           it
           ,
           and
           living
           in
           it
           ,
           will
           be
           readily
           acknowledged
           by
           all
           ;
           but
           seeing
           the
           sum
           of
           this
           Love
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           the
           perfection
           thereof
           ,
           consists
           in
           
             loving
             God
             above
             all
          
           ;
           so
           whatever
           diverteth
           in
           any
           thing
           there-from
           ,
           is
           not
           to
           be
           accounted
           Love
           ,
           though
           the
           same
           word
           be
           used
           to
           express
           it
           ,
           and
           that
           in
           the
           Scripture
           it self
           ;
           such
           as
           the
           Love
           of
           Self
           ,
           the
           Love
           of
           the
           World
           ,
           the
           Love
           of
           any
           Creature
           .
           Hence
           for
           the
           attaining
           of
           the
           true
           and
           excellent
           Love
           ,
           the
           Love
           of
           all
           these
           other
           things
           is
           not
           only
           to
           be
           laid
           aside
           ,
           and
           the
           Love
           of
           God
           preferred
           to
           them
           ,
           but
           they
           are
           to
           be
           hated
           as
           Christ
           himself
           Phraseth
           it
           ,
           
             He
             that
             hateth
             his
             life
          
           ,
           Jo.
           12.
           25.
           
           Yea
           ,
           he
           useth
           it
           so
           ,
           as
           to
           speaking
           of
           
             hating
             Father
             and
             Mother
          
           ,
           Luk.
           14.
           26.
           though
           when
           the
           Love
           to
           such
           ,
           is
           truly
           subordinate
           to
           the
           other
           ,
           it
           is
           both
           commended
           and
           commanded
           .
        
         
         
           The
           Testimony
           which
           is
           required
           of
           our
           really
           being
           in
           the
           Love
           of
           God
           ,
           Christ
           himself
           signifieth
           to
           us
           :
           
             If
             you
             Love
             me
             ,
             keep
             my
             Commandements
             :
          
           And
           as
           the
           Beloved
           Disciple
           John
           said
           in
           the
           case
           of
           Knowledge
           ,
           shewing
           us
           the
           falshood
           of
           such
           as
           pretend
           to
           know
           God
           ,
           and
           yet
           do
           not
           so
           ;
           saying
           ,
           
             He
             that
             says
             he
             knows
             God
             ,
             and
             keeps
             not
             his
             Commandements
             ,
             is
             a
             Lyar
             ,
             and
             the
             Truth
             is
             not
             in
             him
             ,
          
           1
           Jo.
           2.
           4.
           
           So
           may
           be
           also
           said
           ,
           He
           that
           saith
           he
           loves
           God
           ,
           and
           keeps
           not
           his
           Commandment
           ,
           is
           a
           Lyar
           ,
           and
           the
           Truth
           is
           not
           in
           him
           ,
           according
           as
           the
           same
           Apostle
           saith
           ,
           
             I
             Jo.
             5.
             3.
             
             For
             this
             is
             the
             Love
             of
             God
             ,
             that
             we
             keep
             his
             Commandements
             .
          
           Hence
           it
           is
           apparent
           ,
           that
           Love
           without
           Purity
           is
           but
           a
           false
           pretence
           ;
           and
           that
           whatsoever
           hinders
           from
           the
           practice
           of
           this
           Love
           of
           God
           ,
           or
           with
           draws
           from
           the
           obedience
           of
           the
           least
           of
           his
           Commands
           ,
           is
           to
           be
           denyed
           ,
           and
           no
           ways
           to
           be
           entertained
           ,
           as
           being
           either
           the
           love
           of
           the
           Devil
           ,
           the
           love
           of
           the
           World
           ,
           or
           the
           love
           of
           Self
           ,
           and
           not
           the
           love
           of
           the
           Father
           ;
           and
           as
           from
           the
           true
           love
           of
           God
           ,
           having
           taken
           place
           both
           upon
           the
           Understanding
           and
           Will
           ,
           there
           ariseth
           a
           great
           fervency
           and
           desire
           of
           Mind
           ,
           that
           it
           may
           be
           wholly
           united
           with
           the
           Lord
           ,
           and
           made
           conformable
           unto
           his
           Will
           in
           all
           things
           :
           So
           from
           hence
           ariseth
           also
           a
           certain
           Aversion
           from
           ,
           Indignation
           of
           ,
           and
           even
           Hatred
           ,
           to
           whatsoever
           is
           contrary
           thereunto
           ,
           or
           has
           a
           tendency
           to
           lead
           from
           it
           ,
           which
           is
           commonly
           called
           Zeal
           ;
           which
           Zeal
           ,
           having
           a
           right
           bottom
           and
           foundation
           ,
           and
           proceeding
           purely
           from
           the
           Love
           of
           God
           ,
           is
           a
           great
           Virtue
           ,
           greatly
           to
           be
           commended
           and
           pressed
           after
           ,
           and
           the
           defect
           thereof
           is
           justly
           reproveable
           in
           a
           Christian
           .
           That
           Zeal
           then
           thus
           considered
           ,
           is
           a
           thing
           excellent
           ,
           pure
           ,
           and
           holy
           of
           it self
           ,
           appears
           in
           that
           it
           is
           ascribed
           to
           God
           himself
           ,
           2
           
             King.
             19.
             13.
             
             Isa.
          
           9.
           7.
           
           Where
           the
           performance
           of
           the
           Blessed
           Evangelical
           promises
           is
           to
           be
           performed
           by
           the
           Zeal
           of
           the
           Lord
           ,
           Isa.
           19.
           17.
           
           He
           is
           said
           
             to
             be
             Cloathed
             with
             Zeal
             as
             with
             a
             Cloak
             ,
          
           and
           63.
           15.
           
           His
           Zeal
           is
           numbred
           with
           
             his
             Bowels
             and
             Mercies
          
           ;
           next
           David
           
           recommends
           himself
           to
           God
           ,
           for
           that
           
             the
             Zeal
             of
             his
             House
             had
             eaten
             him
             up
             ,
             Psal.
          
           69.
           9.
           and
           119.
           139.
           
           And
           Paul
           commends
           the
           
             Corinthians
             for
             their
             Zeal
          
           ,
           2
           Cor.
           7.
           11.
           1
           
           Cor.
           14.
           12.
           and
           for
           this
           end
           has
           the
           Grace
           of
           God
           appeared
           unto
           all
           ,
           that
           there
           might
           be
           a
           People
           gathered
           ,
           
             Zealous
             of
             good
             Works
          
           ,
           Tit
           ,
           2.
           14.
           
           And
           as
           this
           is
           commended
           and
           recommended
           on
           the
           one
           hand
           ,
           so
           is
           the
           contrary
           thereof
           ;
           to
           wit
           ,
           Indifferency
           and
           Lukewarmness
           reproved
           and
           rebuked
           as
           a
           thing
           displeasing
           to
           the
           Lord
           ,
           of
           many
           instances
           whereof
           that
           might
           be
           given
           ,
           that
           unto
           the
           Church
           of
           Laodicea
           may
           serve
           at
           present
           ,
           Rev.
           13.
           15.
           16.
           
           Because
           for
           a
           Remedy
           against
           this
           Evil
           ,
           she
           is
           Exhorted
           ,
           v.
           19.
           to
           be
           
             Zealous
             and
             Repent
          
           .
        
         
           But
           as
           there
           is
           a
           true
           Zeal
           ,
           so
           is
           there
           a
           false
           one
           ,
           and
           it
           is
           not
           more
           needful
           to
           have
           the
           one
           ,
           then
           i●
           is
           to
           avoid
           the
           other
           .
           Now
           as
           the
           true
           Zeal
           proceedeth
           only
           from
           the
           pure
           Love
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           single
           Regard
           to
           his
           Honour
           and
           Glory
           ,
           so
           the
           false
           Zeal
           proceedeth
           from
           the
           Love
           of
           something
           else
           ,
           and
           the
           regard
           to
           other
           things
           :
           And
           of
           this
           false
           Zeal
           there
           are
           several
           kinds
           as
           well
           as
           degrees
           ;
           all
           of
           which
           ,
           though
           they
           ought
           to
           be
           shunned
           ,
           yet
           some
           are
           far
           more
           hurtful
           and
           pernitious
           than
           others
           ;
           the
           worst
           and
           highest
           of
           these
           is
           when
           as
           Men
           ,
           through
           the
           height
           of
           Pride
           ,
           Lust
           ,
           Ambition
           ,
           or
           Envy
           ,
           shew
           themselves
           furious
           and
           Zealous
           to
           satisfie
           and
           fulfill
           their
           desires
           and
           affections
           ,
           this
           is
           the
           highest
           Zeal
           for
           self
           ;
           From
           this
           Zeal
           did
           Cain
           flay
           
             Abel
             ,
             Ishmael
          
           mocked
           Isaac
           ,
           and
           Esau
           hated
           
             Jacob
             ,
             Pharoah
          
           Persecuted
           the
           Children
           of
           
             Israel
             ,
             Saul
             ,
             David
          
           ,
           and
           Jezabel
           ,
           the
           true
           Prophets
           of
           the
           Lord.
           
        
         
           A
           second
           kind
           is
           ,
           when
           as
           Men
           that
           are
           not
           true
           and
           faithful
           ,
           even
           to
           those
           principles
           of
           Religion
           ,
           they
           profess
           themselves
           to
           acknowledge
           as
           true
           ,
           as
           being
           Conscious
           to
           themselves
           ,
           and
           also
           publickly
           known
           to
           be
           such
           as
           are
           Vitious
           and
           Profligate
           ,
           yet
           do
           violently
           persecute
           and
           oppress
           others
           that
           differs
           from
           them
           ;
           though
           they
           be
           not
           
           only
           equal
           to
           them
           ,
           but
           even
           by
           their
           own
           acknowledgment
           exceed
           them
           in
           Temperance
           and
           Virtue
           ,
           having
           nothing
           to
           charge
           them
           with
           ,
           but
           that
           they
           agree
           not
           with
           them
           in
           judgment
           and
           practice
           in
           matters
           of
           Religion
           :
           This
           apparently
           is
           a
           false
           Zeal
           ,
           and
           not
           of
           God
           ,
           for
           if
           it
           proceeded
           from
           the
           true
           Love
           of
           God
           ,
           it
           would
           first
           operate
           in
           themselves
           to
           the
           removing
           of
           all
           those
           things
           which
           they
           acknowledge
           to
           be
           contrary
           to
           this
           Love
           of
           God
           ,
           before
           it
           exerted
           it self
           towards
           others
           ,
           seeing
           as
           the
           Proverb
           is
           ,
           
             Charity
             begins
             at
             home
          
           .
           And
           like
           unto
           this
           was
           the
           Zeal
           of
           the
           Scribes
           and
           Pharisees
           ,
           who
           Persecuted
           Christ
           for
           a
           breaker
           of
           the
           Law
           which
           themselves
           did
           not
           fulfil
           :
           As
           is
           also
           the
           Zeal
           both
           of
           the
           Papists
           and
           Protestants
           in
           their
           Persecutions
           at
           this
           day
           .
        
         
           A
           third
           sort
           is
           of
           such
           ,
           who
           do
           indeed
           walk
           strictly
           and
           closely
           to
           their
           own
           Principles
           ,
           making
           Conscience
           of
           their
           way
           ;
           but
           yet
           being
           blinded
           in
           their
           understanding
           ,
           do
           Persecute
           Truth
           ,
           supposing
           it
           to
           be
           Error
           :
           Of
           this
           number
           was
           Paul
           before
           his
           Conversion
           ,
           
             Being
             as
             to
             the
             Law
             blameless
             ,
          
           and
           Persecuting
           the
           Saints
           out
           of
           Zeal
           ,
           Act.
           22.
           3.
           
           Gal.
           1.
           14.
           
           And
           therefore
           ,
           in
           this
           Class
           he
           numbers
           his
           Country-men
           ,
           saying
           ,
           
             They
             have
             a
          
           Zeal
           
             for
             God
             ,
             but
             not
             according
             to
             knowledge
             ,
          
           Rom.
           10.
           2.
           
           And
           perhaps
           among
           these
           ,
           such
           may
           be
           numbred
           ,
           of
           whom
           Christ
           speaketh
           ,
           saying
           to
           his
           Disciples
           ,
           and
           
             when
             they
             kill
             you
             ,
             they
             shall
             think
             to
             do
             God
             good
             Service
             .
          
        
         
           A
           fourth
           or
           last
           sort
           is
           ,
           when
           as
           Men
           being
           truly
           enlightned
           in
           their
           Understanding
           ,
           but
           their
           Will
           ,
           Heart
           ,
           and
           Affections
           not
           being
           throughly
           leavened
           with
           the
           Love
           of
           God
           ,
           do
           condemn
           things
           justly
           reproveable
           ,
           but
           not
           out
           of
           the
           pure
           drawings
           of
           Divine
           Love
           ,
           but
           even
           from
           a
           mixture
           of
           self
           in
           the
           forwardness
           of
           their
           own
           will
           ,
           as
           not
           suffering
           any
           to
           be
           contrary
           unto
           them
           .
        
         
           This
           is
           the
           most
           innocent
           kind
           of
           wrong
           Zeal
           ;
           yet
           not
           so
           that
           it
           ought
           to
           be
           watched
           against
           ,
           and
           of
           those
           few
           that
           are
           guilty
           of
           it
           ,
           it
           were
           fit
           they
           waited
           to
           be
           Redeemed
           
           from
           it
           ;
           but
           the
           pure
           undefiled
           Zeal
           that
           is
           acceptable
           to
           God
           ,
           is
           that
           which
           proceeds
           not
           only
           from
           a
           pure
           and
           clear
           understanding
           ,
           but
           also
           from
           a
           renewed
           and
           sanctified
           Will
           which
           moves
           not
           of
           ,
           nor
           from
           Self
           ,
           but
           from
           and
           for
           the
           Lord.
           
        
      
       
         
           SECT
           .
           III.
           The
           Controversie
           stated
           ,
           with
           respect
           to
           the
           different
           sort
           of
           Christians
           ;
           how
           it
           is
           to
           be
           fetched
           from
           the
           nature
           of
           their
           Principles
           ,
           and
           not
           from
           the
           practice
           of
           particular
           persons
           .
        
         
           THe
           sun
           of
           what
           is
           said
           ,
           is
           ,
           that
           true
           
             Christian
             Love
          
           and
           Charity
           ,
           is
           the
           most
           excellent
           of
           Virtues
           ,
           most
           needful
           to
           be
           sought
           after
           and
           attained
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           never
           joyned
           ,
           but
           with
           purity
           ,
           which
           it
           naturally
           leads
           to
           ;
           and
           there-from
           doth
           consequentially
           arise
           an
           Indignation
           and
           Zeal
           against
           Unrighteousness
           ,
           which
           
             true
             Zeal
          
           is
           justly
           commendable
           ,
           and
           really
           distinguishable
           from
           all
           false
           and
           ignorant
           Zeal
           .
        
         
           For
           the
           more
           clear
           stating
           of
           the
           Controversie
           in
           proceeding
           in
           this
           matter
           ,
           these
           following
           assertions
           relating
           thereto
           may
           be
           proposed
           and
           affirmed
           .
        
         
           I.
           That
           whatsoever
           Love
           is
           consistent
           with
           the
           
             pure
             Love
             of
             God
          
           ,
           may
           be
           safely
           exercised
           towards
           all
           sorts
           ,
           as
           well
           of
           Men
           as
           Christians
           .
        
         
           II.
           That
           whatsoever
           
             Love
             or
             Charity
          
           really
           conduceth
           to
           the
           salvation
           of
           their
           souls
           ,
           and
           so
           far
           as
           they
           are
           capable
           thereof
           ,
           may
           and
           ought
           to
           be
           shewed
           towards
           them
           .
        
         
           III.
           That
           therefore
           the
           good
           in
           all
           ought
           to
           be
           
             commended
             ,
             encouraged
          
           ,
           and
           loved
           ,
           and
           no
           true
           Good
           either
           denyed
           ,
           rejected
           ,
           or
           despised
           ,
           because
           of
           any
           Errors
           peculiar
           to
           respective
           Sects
           .
        
         
           IV.
           That
           the
           Evil
           ,
           either
           in
           Opinion
           or
           practice
           ,
           ought
           neither
           to
           be
           spared
           ,
           encouraged
           ,
           nor
           fomented
           under
           any
           pretence
           of
           Love
           whatsoever
           .
        
         
         
           These
           I
           shall
           not
           enlarge
           ,
           nor
           yet
           offer
           to
           prove
           (
           studying
           to
           avoyd
           prolixity
           )
           because
           I
           presume
           they
           will
           be
           readily
           granted
           and
           assented
           to
           by
           all
           .
           That
           then
           ,
           which
           principally
           comes
           under
           consideration
           ,
           is
           to
           consider
           and
           examine
           which
           of
           all
           the
           several
           sorts
           of
           Christians
           at
           this
           day
           do
           most
           truly
           observe
           these
           rules
           ,
           and
           shew
           forth
           most
           of
           the
           true
           Love
           and
           Zeal
           of
           God
           in
           their
           way
           and
           principles
           ,
           avoyding
           that
           which
           is
           contrary
           thereunto
           ;
           wherein
           ,
           that
           I
           may
           proceed
           clearly
           ,
           there
           are
           some
           things
           previous
           to
           be
           warily
           and
           seriously
           weighed
           ;
           as
        
         
           First
           ;
           when
           I
           speak
           of
           the
           Charity
           of
           the
           several
           sorts
           of
           Christians
           ,
           I
           speak
           of
           such
           as
           are
           settled
           in
           their
           in
           respective
           Principles
           ,
           as
           perswading
           themselves
           certainly
           in
           the
           truths
           and
           soundness
           of
           them
           ,
           so
           that
           their
           
             Love
             and
             Charity
          
           is
           really
           to
           such
           as
           they
           judge
           and
           believe
           are
           wrong
           ,
           seeming
           to
           have
           Charity
           to
           all
           ,
           and
           be
           affraid
           to
           judge
           them
           from
           an
           unsettledness
           in
           ones
           self
           ,
           as
           not
           knowing
           which
           is
           right
           or
           which
           is
           wrong
           ,
           is
           a
           Vertue
           of
           necessity
           and
           not
           of
           choyce
           ,
           and
           proceedeth
           no
           ways
           from
           the
           
             Love
             of
             God
          
           ,
           neither
           has
           any
           resemblance
           thereunto
           ,
           for
           God
           loveth
           and
           Compassionates
           Sinners
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           are
           out
           of
           the
           way
           ,
           not
           as
           being
           ignorant
           ,
           or
           doubting
           whether
           they
           be
           such
           ,
           but
           as
           really
           knowing
           them
           .
           It
           were
           indeed
           the
           height
           of
           madness
           and
           folly
           for
           these
           unsettled
           ,
           uncertain
           ,
           and
           stragling
           souls
           to
           take
           the
           liberty
           to
           judge
           others
           for
           being
           wrong
           ,
           while
           they
           profess
           they
           know
           not
           yet
           who
           is
           right
           and
           who
           is
           wrong
           ;
           being
           only
           sure
           of
           this
           ,
           that
           themselves
           are
           not
           come
           to
           rights
           ,
           for
           they
           could
           not
           in
           so
           doing
           ,
           but
           be
           Self-condemned
           ;
           not
           but
           I
           believe
           that
           the
           condition
           of
           such
           ,
           if
           they
           be
           truly
           forbearing
           ,
           and
           ready
           to
           embrace
           the
           good
           when
           seen
           by
           them
           ,
           is
           both
           more
           tollerable
           to
           others
           ,
           and
           safe
           for
           themselves
           than
           those
           that
           are
           hardily
           confident
           in
           a
           wrong
           belief
           from
           thence
           forwardly
           judging
           others
           .
           But
           this
           I
           mention
           for
           the
           sake
           of
           certain
           men
           of
           loose
           ,
           and
           uncertain
           principles
           ,
           who
           being
           really
           Conscious
           to
           themselves
           of
           their
           own
           unsettledness
           ,
           finding
           themselves
           
           at
           a
           loss
           ,
           as
           concerning
           many
           of
           the
           controverted
           Principles
           of
           the
           Christian
           Religion
           ,
           which
           is
           right
           ,
           and
           which
           wrong
           ,
           and
           not
           finding
           a
           ready
           way
           to
           come
           to
           any
           certain
           determination
           therein
           ,
           and
           being
           perhaps
           unwilling
           to
           undergoe
           the
           trouble
           and
           difficulty
           of
           such
           a
           serious
           search
           and
           enquiry
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           desirous
           to
           avoyd
           these
           troublesome
           circumstances
           ,
           or
           other
           inconveniences
           which
           may
           seem
           to
           them
           necessarily
           to
           accompany
           their
           imbodying
           themselves
           with
           any
           particular
           People
           or
           Fellowship
           ,
           and
           therefore
           find
           it
           more
           easie
           to
           satisfie
           and
           please
           themselves
           with
           some
           general
           notions
           of
           practical
           Truths
           ,
           commonly
           acknowledged
           by
           all
           ,
           and
           therefore
           cover
           themselves
           by
           condemning
           that
           heat
           ,
           asperity
           ,
           and
           severe
           censuring
           that
           is
           among
           the
           several
           sorts
           of
           Christians
           ,
           one
           towards
           another
           ,
           as
           not
           consistent
           with
           ,
           nor
           suitable
           to
           that
           Love
           which
           ought
           to
           be
           in
           all
           Christians
           ;
           whereas
           ,
           poor
           Men
           ,
           they
           mind
           not
           how
           much
           they
           fall
           in
           this
           Crime
           ,
           and
           that
           in
           a
           degree
           far
           more
           reprovable
           than
           those
           they
           thus
           accuse
           :
           For
           ,
        
         
           First
           :
           Are
           not
           they
           found
           guilty
           of
           the
           want
           of
           this
           
             Christian
             Love
             and
             Charity
          
           ,
           that
           do
           judge
           and
           condemn
           all
           these
           several
           sorts
           of
           Christians
           as
           defective
           in
           this
           so
           principal
           and
           necessary
           a
           Christian
           Vertue
           ,
           whereby
           they
           do
           indirectly
           shut
           them
           out
           from
           being
           Christians
           or
           Disciples
           of
           Jesus
           ;
           for
           if
           they
           judged
           it
           an
           Error
           inconsistent
           with
           
             Christian
             Love
             and
             Charity
          
           ,
           to
           condemn
           or
           accuse
           one
           another
           for
           difference
           in
           Opinion
           ;
           why
           are
           they
           found
           themselves
           so
           guilty
           of
           it
           ?
           for
           since
           in
           this
           censuring
           and
           condemning
           of
           one
           another
           among
           the
           several
           sorts
           of
           Christians
           is
           practised
           by
           them
           as
           their
           duty
           ,
           and
           a
           necessary
           consequence
           of
           their
           Doctrine
           ,
           why
           should
           these
           judge
           them
           for
           it
           ,
           if
           they
           say
           they
           condemn
           them
           for
           it
           ;
           Because
           they
           believe
           it
           to
           be
           a
           wrong
           Principle
           ,
           shall
           not
           others
           be
           allowed
           the
           like
           liberty
           to
           condemn
           Principles
           they
           likewise
           believe
           to
           be
           wrong
           ;
           one
           of
           two
           then
           must
           of
           necessity
           hold
           ,
           either
           that
           wrong
           Doctrines
           or
           Opinions
           may
           be
           justly
           reproved
           ,
           confuted
           ,
           and
           condemned
           without
           breach
           
           of
           
             Christian
             Love
             and
             Charity
          
           ,
           and
           therefore
           the
           so
           doing
           amongst
           the
           several
           sorts
           of
           Christians
           ,
           upon
           their
           own
           respective
           Principles
           in
           it self
           simply
           considered
           ,
           not
           evil
           or
           reproveable
           ;
           and
           therefore
           these
           men
           wrong
           in
           judging
           it
           so
           ,
           or
           it
           is
           an
           evil
           and
           inconsistent
           with
           
             Christian
             Love
             and
             Charity
          
           to
           condemn
           any
           sort
           of
           Christians
           for
           their
           Doctrines
           and
           Opinions
           ;
           and
           if
           so
           ,
           these
           men
           fall
           fouly
           in
           this
           Crime
           ,
           that
           do
           accuse
           all
           others
           for
           this
           judging
           of
           Principles
           ,
           and
           yet
           themselves
           judge
           them
           for
           their
           Principles
           herein
           :
           And
           ,
        
         
           Secondly
           :
           Their
           envy
           in
           this
           is
           of
           an
           higher
           degree
           by
           their
           own
           Sentence
           ,
           then
           those
           others
           thus
           judged
           by
           them
           ,
           because
           the
           others
           proceed
           upon
           a
           certain
           belief
           and
           firm
           perswasion
           that
           they
           are
           in
           the
           right
           ,
           and
           those
           they
           condemn
           wrong
           ,
           and
           so
           proceed
           rationally
           consequential
           to
           their
           own
           Principles
           ;
           but
           these
           Men
           ,
           Albeit
           they
           be
           Conscious
           to
           themselves
           ,
           that
           they
           are
           not
           come
           to
           a
           determination
           of
           what
           is
           right
           and
           what
           wrong
           ,
           and
           remain
           yet
           in
           doubt
           for
           want
           of
           a
           clear
           Understanding
           what
           to
           approve
           and
           what
           to
           condemn
           ,
           do
           never
           the-less
           most
           irrationally
           and
           inconsequentially
           to
           their
           own
           affirmations
           ,
           reprove
           ,
           censure
           ,
           and
           condemn
           all
           others
           as
           destitute
           of
           ,
           or
           at
           least
           defective
           in
           a
           vertue
           and
           quality
           so
           necessary
           and
           essential
           to
           all
           Christian
           Societies
           ;
           to
           whom
           ,
           therefore
           ,
           may
           be
           fitly
           applyed
           the
           saying
           of
           the
           Patriarch
           Jacob
           ,
           to
           his
           First-born
           
             Ruben
             :
             Unstable
             as
             water
             ,
             thou
             shalt
             not
             excel
             ,
          
           Gen.
           49.
           4.
           
           And
           that
           of
           the
           Apostle
           Paul
           to
           the
           Romans
           ,
           Rom.
           2.
           11.
           
           As
           also
           that
           other
           saying
           of
           the
           same
           Apostle
           to
           the
           
             Galatians
             ;
             For
             if
             I
             Build
             again
             the
             things
             that
             I
             destroyed
             ,
             I
             make
             my self
             a
             Transgressor
             ,
          
           Gal.
           2.
           18.
           
        
         
           2dly
           .
           To
           make
           a
           judgment
           of
           the
           several
           sorts
           of
           Christians
           ,
           we
           must
           fetch
           it
           not
           from
           the
           practices
           of
           particular
           Persons
           ,
           but
           from
           their
           respective
           principles
           ,
           by
           enquiring
           how
           far
           they
           naturally
           lead
           to
           ,
           or
           draw
           from
           this
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           ,
           because
           that
           it
           cannot
           be
           denyed
           ,
           but
           that
           among
           all
           and
           every
           sort
           of
           the
           several
           Sects
           of
           Christians
           ,
           
           there
           are
           men
           of
           divers
           and
           sundry
           humours
           and
           complexions
           ;
           some
           more
           hot
           ,
           violent
           ,
           and
           froward
           ,
           who
           prosecute
           what
           they
           judge
           right
           ,
           with
           great
           Zeal
           ,
           hast
           ,
           and
           fury
           ;
           others
           of
           more
           calme
           ,
           meek
           ,
           and
           loving
           dispositions
           ,
           who
           though
           they
           be
           not
           less
           desirous
           to
           advance
           their
           way
           ,
           yet
           do
           it
           in
           a
           more
           complacent
           ,
           affable
           ,
           and
           deliberate
           manner
           :
           Some
           there
           are
           that
           are
           naturally
           of
           a
           careless
           ,
           indifferent
           ,
           Gallio-like
           temper
           in
           such
           things
           ,
           and
           therefore
           behave
           more
           forbearingly
           and
           civilly
           towards
           such
           as
           dissent
           from
           them
           ,
           not
           because
           of
           any
           Vertue
           ,
           but
           because
           such
           things
           do
           not
           much
           trouble
           or
           touch
           them
           .
           Neither
           then
           of
           these
           Vertues
           ,
           as
           they
           are
           incident
           to
           particular
           Persons
           ,
           are
           so
           justly
           chargeable
           upon
           a
           Sect
           or
           People
           ,
           as
           from
           thence
           to
           make
           a
           positive
           judgment
           of
           their
           
             Universal
             Charity
          
           or
           not
           ;
           seeing
           these
           are
           not
           the
           consequences
           of
           their
           Principles
           ,
           or
           that
           which
           necessary
           comes
           from
           them
           ,
           as
           relating
           to
           this
           or
           that
           Society
           ,
           but
           the
           meer
           product
           of
           their
           natural
           and
           private
           humours
           ,
           how
           far
           any
           particular
           or
           singular
           Persons
           among
           the
           several
           Sects
           ,
           have
           attained
           to
           the
           performance
           of
           that
           true
           
             Love
             and
             Zeal
          
           formerly
           described
           :
           I
           shall
           not
           determine
           ,
           neither
           does
           it
           necessarily
           belong
           to
           this
           Question
           ;
           for
           if
           any
           should
           be
           found
           to
           do
           any
           thing
           which
           were
           so
           far
           from
           being
           the
           consequence
           of
           their
           Principles
           ,
           as
           to
           be
           quite
           contrary
           ,
           their
           Brethren
           would
           not
           suffer
           their
           Principles
           from
           thence
           to
           be
           improved
           ;
           so
           neither
           can
           the
           excellency
           of
           any
           singular
           Persons
           ,
           while
           not
           proceeding
           upon
           their
           Principles
           ,
           approve
           them
           as
           justifiable
           in
           this
           respect
           :
           As
           for
           instance
           ,
           where
           it
           is
           the
           
             Universal
             Principle
          
           and
           general
           practice
           of
           a
           Sect
           ,
           to
           persecute
           even
           to
           the
           utmost
           those
           that
           differ
           from
           them
           ,
           as
           in
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           should
           there
           be
           found
           one
           or
           two
           ,
           or
           a
           very
           few
           of
           a
           more
           moderate
           spirit
           ,
           that
           should
           profess
           an
           aversion
           from
           such
           sort
           of
           severity
           ,
           and
           also
           practice
           it
           in
           their
           station
           ,
           according
           to
           their
           Capacity
           ,
           who
           would
           ascribe
           this
           moderation
           and
           Charity
           to
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           would
           take
           his
           measures
           but
           badly
           ;
           
           and
           on
           the
           other
           hand
           ,
           where
           it
           is
           the
           
             Universal
             Principle
          
           and
           general
           practices
           of
           a
           People
           ,
           not
           at
           all
           to
           persecute
           for
           the
           matter
           of
           Conscience
           ,
           should
           any
           private
           Persons
           of
           that
           Society
           be
           carryed
           by
           their
           fury
           and
           heat
           to
           the
           practice
           of
           any
           such
           thing
           ,
           though
           directly
           contrary
           to
           their
           Principles
           ,
           who
           would
           charge
           this
           upon
           the
           whole
           People
           ,
           and
           thence
           measure
           them
           ,
           would
           make
           also
           a
           bad
           consequence
           .
           Nevertheless
           ,
           I
           shall
           not
           deny
           but
           some
           Principles
           are
           so
           pernitious
           ,
           and
           so
           strait
           and
           narrow
           ,
           that
           they
           seem
           by
           a
           certain
           Malignity
           generally
           to
           influence
           all
           their
           followers
           ,
           as
           shall
           after
           be
           observed
           :
           But
           I
           shall
           now
           proceed
           to
           the
           fore-mentioned
           Examination
           .
        
      
       
         
           SECT
           .
           IV.
           An
           Examination
           of
           the
           Principles
           of
           several
           sorts
           of
           the
           so
           called
           Christans
           ,
           compared
           with
           this
           Universal
           Love
           ,
           and
           found
           defective
           :
           As
           1.
           of
           Papists
           :
           2.
           of
           Protestants
           in
           general
           :
           3.
           of
           Socinians
           .
        
         
           AS
           there
           are
           two
           ways
           chiefly
           whereby
           a
           People
           or
           Society
           do
           signifie
           their
           
             Charity
             or
             Love
          
           towards
           others
           that
           differ
           from
           them
           ;
           so
           by
           these
           two
           also
           ,
           is
           signified
           their
           contrary
           Principles
           and
           practice
           .
        
         
           The
           first
           is
           by
           a
           favourable
           and
           
             Charitable
             judgment
          
           of
           the
           condition
           of
           Mens
           Souls
           ;
           Albeit
           ,
           of
           different
           and
           contrary
           principles
           from
           them
           ,
           in
           supposing
           ,
           or
           at
           least
           not
           absolutely
           denying
           ,
           but
           that
           they
           may
           even
           upon
           their
           own
           Principles
           ,
           if
           faithful
           thereto
           ,
           obtain
           Peace
           with
           God
           ,
           and
           Life
           Eternal
           .
        
         
           The
           Second
           is
           by
           a
           Friendly
           and
           Neighbourly
           deportment
           towards
           Mens
           Persons
           ,
           in
           not
           seeking
           to
           ruin
           and
           destroy
           them
           ,
           whether
           in
           Life
           ,
           Liberty
           ,
           or
           Estate
           ;
           Albeit
           ,
           their
           judgment
           concerning
           God
           ,
           and
           things
           Spiritual
           in
           the
           Nature
           and
           Manner
           of
           the
           exercise
           of
           their
           Worship
           ,
           be
           both
           
           contrary
           and
           different
           ;
           where
           the
           defect
           of
           any
           of
           these
           two
           is
           ,
           there
           of
           necessity
           must
           be
           wanting
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           and
           Charity
           ;
           for
           thou
           that
           hast
           bound
           up
           ,
           and
           tyed
           the
           means
           of
           Salvation
           to
           thy
           Principles
           and
           Doctrines
           ,
           so
           as
           to
           exclude
           from
           Salvation
           all
           that
           differ
           from
           thee
           ,
           or
           contradict
           thee
           ,
           has
           certainly
           declared
           ,
           thy
           Charity
           exceeds
           not
           the
           limits
           of
           thy
           own
           form
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           best
           Opinion
           ,
           and
           highest
           esteem
           thou
           hast
           of
           any
           that
           differ
           from
           thee
           ,
           for
           any
           vertues
           or
           excellencies
           that
           may
           appear
           to
           be
           in
           them
           ,
           resolves
           at
           last
           in
           no
           better
           then
           this
           Conclusion
           ,
           For
           all
           this
           they
           must
           be
           Damned
           ;
           neither
           will
           it
           serve
           to
           prove
           the
           
             Universal
             Charity
          
           of
           any
           People
           ,
           in
           this
           respect
           ,
           that
           some
           of
           them
           may
           Problematically
           affirm
           ,
           that
           Salvation
           may
           be
           possible
           to
           some
           such
           Dissenters
           ,
           living
           in
           remote
           parts
           ,
           who
           are
           excluded
           from
           the
           benefit
           of
           all
           means
           of
           knowing
           their
           Principles
           ;
           making
           this
           possibility
           only
           as
           an
           effect
           of
           Gods
           Omnipotency
           ,
           and
           so
           purely
           miraculous
           ;
           alledging
           ,
           they
           will
           not
           deny
           but
           God
           in
           a
           miraculous
           and
           extraordinary
           way
           may
           bring
           some
           to
           Heaven
           ;
           for
           this
           shews
           no
           Charity
           at
           all
           ,
           either
           in
           the
           Principle
           or
           People
           ,
           but
           is
           only
           a
           meer
           seeming
           acknowledgment
           of
           God's
           Omnipotency
           from
           a
           sight
           of
           the
           gross
           absurdity
           that
           would
           follow
           from
           affirming
           otherwise
           :
           Those
           only
           can
           be
           esteemed
           Charitable
           in
           point
           of
           Doctrine
           ,
           and
           truly
           to
           commend
           the
           
             Love
             of
             God
          
           ,
           whose
           Principle
           is
           of
           that
           extent
           ,
           as
           naturally
           to
           take
           in
           within
           the
           compass
           of
           it
           ;
           both
           such
           as
           have
           not
           arrived
           to
           their
           discoveries
           ,
           and
           who
           are
           also
           different
           in
           judgment
           from
           them
           ,
           and
           that
           without
           any
           extraordinary
           and
           miraculous
           conveyance
           ,
           as
           being
           the
           common
           means
           and
           order
           of
           Salvation
           appointed
           by
           God
           for
           all
           ,
           and
           truly
           reaching
           all
           .
        
         
           Moreover
           ,
           in
           the
           second
           place
           ,
           far
           less
           canst
           thou
           pretend
           to
           have
           Charity
           for
           me
           ,
           that
           wilt
           rob
           me
           of
           my
           Life
           ,
           Goods
           ,
           or
           Liberty
           ,
           because
           I
           cannot
           jump
           with
           thee
           in
           my
           judgment
           in
           Religious
           matters
           ;
           to
           say
           thou
           dost
           it
           for
           good
           ,
           and
           out
           of
           the
           Love
           thou
           bearest
           to
           my
           soul
           ,
           is
           an
           
           Argument
           too
           ridiculous
           to
           be
           answered
           ,
           unless
           that
           the
           so
           doing
           did
           infallably
           produce
           always
           a
           change
           in
           judgment
           ;
           the
           very
           contrary
           ,
           whereof
           experience
           has
           abundantly
           shewn
           ,
           and
           to
           this
           day
           doth
           shew
           ;
           seeing
           such
           severities
           do
           oftner
           confirm
           men
           in
           their
           Principles
           ,
           then
           drive
           them
           from
           them
           ,
           and
           then
           by
           thy
           own
           confession
           ,
           thou
           dost
           not
           only
           destroy
           my
           body
           ,
           but
           my
           soul
           also
           ,
           and
           cannot
           avoid
           thinking
           upon
           thy
           own
           Principle
           ;
           but
           I
           must
           be
           Damned
           if
           I
           persist
           in
           my
           judgment
           ,
           which
           for
           thee
           to
           be
           the
           very
           immediate
           occasion
           and
           Author
           of
           ,
           is
           certainly
           the
           greatest
           act
           of
           Malice
           and
           Envy
           that
           can
           be
           imagined
           ;
           seeing
           thou
           dost
           what
           in
           thee
           lyeth
           ,
           through
           the
           heat
           of
           thy
           Zeal
           and
           Fury
           ,
           to
           cut
           me
           off
           from
           obtaining
           that
           place
           of
           Repentance
           ,
           which
           for
           ought
           thou
           knowest
           ,
           it
           might
           please
           God
           to
           afford
           me
           ,
           were
           not
           my
           days
           thus
           shortned
           by
           thee
           .
           To
           alledge
           the
           example
           of
           putting
           to
           Death
           Murderers
           ,
           and
           other
           such
           Profligate
           Malefactors
           ,
           which
           is
           allowably
           done
           by
           the
           general
           judgment
           of
           almost
           all
           Christians
           ;
           from
           thence
           urging
           ,
           that
           as
           this
           is
           not
           accounted
           a
           breach
           of
           Christian
           Charity
           ,
           so
           neither
           the
           other
           will
           no
           way
           serve
           the
           purpose
           ,
           nor
           yet
           be
           a
           sufficient
           cover
           for
           this
           kind
           of
           Unchristian
           cruelty
           ,
           because
           the
           Crimes
           for
           which
           these
           are
           thus
           punished
           ,
           are
           such
           as
           are
           not
           justified
           as
           matters
           of
           Conscience
           ,
           or
           Conscientiously
           practised
           ,
           which
           are
           unanimously
           Condemned
           ,
           not
           only
           by
           the
           consent
           of
           all
           Christians
           ,
           but
           of
           all
           men
           ,
           as
           being
           destructive
           to
           the
           very
           Nature
           of
           Man-kind
           ,
           and
           to
           all
           humane
           Society
           ;
           and
           't
           is
           confessed
           ,
           even
           by
           all
           such
           Malefactors
           themselves
           (
           I
           know
           not
           if
           one
           of
           a
           hundred
           thousand
           can
           be
           excepted
           )
           and
           the
           punishment
           of
           such
           is
           justifiable
           ,
           as
           all
           generally
           acknowledge
           ;
           but
           to
           kill
           sober
           ,
           honest
           ,
           good
           Men
           ,
           meerly
           for
           their
           Conscience
           ,
           is
           quite
           contrary
           to
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           Christ
           ,
           as
           has
           been
           elsewhere
           upon
           other
           occasions
           largely
           demonstrated
           .
        
         
           This
           being
           premised
           ,
           I
           shall
           briefly
           apply
           the
           same
           to
           
           the
           several
           sorts
           of
           Christians
           ,
           that
           thence
           may
           be
           observed
           ,
           whose
           Principles
           do
           most
           exactly
           agree
           with
           ,
           and
           lead
           to
           that
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           and
           Charity
           ,
           so
           much
           in
           words
           commended
           by
           all
           ,
           and
           for
           the
           want
           of
           which
           ,
           every
           sort
           take
           so
           much
           liberty
           to
           judge
           and
           condemn
           each
           other
           .
           There
           are
           many
           other
           particulars
           by
           which
           the
           several
           Sects
           may
           be
           tryed
           in
           this
           respect
           ,
           but
           these
           two
           fore-mentioned
           being
           the
           principal
           ,
           I
           shall
           chiefly
           insist
           upon
           them
           in
           this
           present
           application
           .
        
         
           To
           begin
           then
           with
           the
           Papists
           ,
           there
           is
           nothing
           more
           commonly
           acknowledged
           and
           assented
           to
           among
           them
           ,
           then
           that
           Maxim
           ,
           
             Extra
             Ecclesiam
             nulla
             Salus
          
           ,
           without
           the
           Church
           there
           is
           no
           Salvation
           ;
           which
           Maxim
           ,
           in
           a
           sence
           ,
           I
           confess
           to
           be
           true
           (
           as
           shall
           hereafter
           appear
           )
           but
           according
           as
           it
           is
           understood
           among
           them
           ,
           it
           does
           utterly
           destroy
           this
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           and
           Charity
           ;
           for
           by
           this
           Church
           ,
           without
           which
           there
           is
           no
           Salvation
           ,
           they
           precisely
           understand
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           reckoning
           ,
           that
           whosoever
           are
           not
           of
           her
           Fellowship
           ,
           are
           not
           saved
           ;
           and
           this
           must
           needs
           necessarily
           follow
           upon
           their
           Principles
           ,
           seeing
           they
           make
           the
           Ceremonial
           Imbodying
           in
           this
           Church
           ,
           so
           necessarity
           to
           Salvation
           ,
           that
           they
           exclude
           from
           it
           the
           very
           Children
           begotten
           and
           brought
           forth
           by
           their
           own
           Members
           ,
           unless
           formally
           received
           by
           the
           Sprinkling
           or
           Baptisme
           of
           Water
           :
           And
           Albeit
           ,
           they
           have
           a
           certain
           place
           more
           tolerable
           than
           Hell
           for
           these
           Unbaptized
           Infants
           ,
           yet
           hence
           is
           manifest
           how
           small
           their
           Charity
           is
           ,
           and
           how
           much
           it
           is
           confined
           to
           their
           particular
           Ceremonies
           and
           forms
           ,
           since
           if
           they
           think
           Children
           born
           among
           them
           ,
           for
           want
           of
           this
           Circumstance
           are
           excluded
           from
           Heaven
           ,
           Albeit
           ,
           never
           guilty
           of
           actual
           Transgression
           ,
           they
           must
           needs
           judge
           that
           such
           as
           both
           want
           it
           ,
           and
           also
           are
           guilty
           of
           many
           sins
           ,
           as
           they
           believe
           all
           men
           are
           who
           are
           come
           to
           age
           ,
           especially
           such
           as
           are
           not
           in
           the
           Church
           ,
           go
           without
           remedy
           to
           Hell.
           
        
         
           Secondly
           :
           All
           Dissenters
           and
           Seperatists
           from
           the
           Church
           ,
           Infidels
           ,
           Turks
           ,
           and
           Heriticks
           ,
           which
           in
           short
           are
           all
           that
           
           profess
           not
           fellowship
           and
           Communion
           with
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           and
           own
           her
           not
           as
           their
           Mother
           ,
           are
           in
           a
           most
           solemn
           manner
           yearly
           Excommunicated
           by
           the
           Pope
           ;
           and
           it
           were
           a
           most
           gross
           inconsistency
           to
           suppose
           that
           such
           as
           are
           so
           Cursed
           and
           Excommunicated
           ,
           and
           given
           over
           to
           the
           Devil
           by
           the
           Father
           and
           chief
           Bishop
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           can
           in
           the
           judgment
           of
           the
           Members
           be
           saved
           ,
           especially
           while
           they
           think
           he
           is
           approved
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           led
           by
           an
           Infallible
           Spirit
           in
           his
           so
           Excommunicating
           them
           .
        
         
           And
           lastly
           :
           To
           suppose
           any
           such
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           or
           Charity
           ,
           as
           extending
           to
           Persons
           either
           without
           the
           compass
           of
           their
           own
           Society
           ,
           or
           dissenting
           and
           separating
           from
           them
           ,
           so
           as
           to
           reckon
           them
           in
           a
           capacity
           or
           possibility
           of
           Salvation
           ,
           were
           to
           destroy
           and
           overturn
           the
           very
           Bassis
           and
           Foundation
           of
           the
           
             Roman
             Church
          
           ,
           which
           stands
           in
           acknowledging
           the
           Superiority
           and
           Precedency
           of
           Peter
           and
           his
           Successors
           ,
           and
           in
           believing
           that
           Infallibility
           is
           annexed
           thereunto
           .
        
         
           Now
           such
           as
           are
           not
           of
           the
           Roman
           Society
           ,
           cannot
           do
           this
           ;
           and
           those
           that
           do
           not
           thus
           ,
           are
           such
           to
           whom
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           can
           have
           no
           Charity
           ,
           but
           must
           look
           upon
           them
           as
           without
           the
           Church
           ,
           and
           consequently
           as
           uncapable
           of
           Salvation
           while
           there
           abiding
           .
        
         
           If
           it
           be
           objected
           that
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           professeth
           Charity
           to
           the
           
             Greek
             ,
             Armenian
          
           ,
           and
           Ethiopian
           Churches
           ,
           Albeit
           ,
           vastly
           differing
           in
           many
           things
           from
           them
           .
        
         
           I
           Answer
           ,
           that
           whatsoever
           Charity
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           either
           doth
           ,
           or
           ever
           hath
           professed
           to
           any
           of
           these
           ,
           shall
           be
           found
           to
           be
           always
           upon
           a
           supposed
           acknowledgment
           made
           by
           them
           to
           the
           See
           of
           Rome
           ,
           as
           the
           Mother-Church
           and
           Apostolick
           Seat
           ,
           from
           thence
           seeking
           the
           Confirmation
           and
           Authority
           of
           their
           Patriarches
           ,
           at
           least
           as
           the
           Romanists
           have
           sought
           to
           make
           the
           World
           believe
           (
           how
           true
           ,
           is
           not
           my
           present
           business
           to
           enquire
           )
           and
           all
           these
           differences
           of
           Ceremonies
           that
           are
           betwixt
           them
           ,
           are
           only
           approved
           by
           the
           Romanists
           as
           such
           which
           are
           indulged
           to
           them
           
           by
           the
           Pope
           ,
           who
           pretends
           out
           of
           a
           Fatherly
           care
           and
           compassion
           to
           yield
           these
           things
           unto
           them
           ,
           which
           if
           it
           be
           true
           ,
           is
           done
           by
           him
           rather
           to
           uphold
           the
           shew
           of
           his
           Authority
           ;
           and
           because
           distance
           of
           place
           ,
           and
           other
           incommodities
           hinders
           him
           from
           pressing
           more
           upon
           them
           ,
           since
           in
           places
           nearer
           hand
           ,
           and
           where
           fitter
           opportunities
           hath
           been
           presented
           ,
           he
           hath
           shewn
           himself
           very
           Zealous
           and
           Violent
           to
           bring
           all
           to
           a
           ready
           obedience
           to
           the
           least
           of
           his
           Commands
           ,
           as
           by
           many
           examples
           could
           be
           largely
           proved
           ;
           yet
           some
           are
           of
           the
           mind
           that
           all
           these
           Stories
           and
           pretended
           acknowledgments
           of
           Patriarchs
           to
           the
           Romish
           Sea
           are
           but
           the
           meer
           effects
           of
           the
           Policy
           of
           that
           Court
           ,
           to
           uphold
           their
           Grandure
           ,
           and
           nothing
           better
           but
           pretty
           Comedies
           to
           amuse
           the
           Vulgar
           and
           Credulous
           ,
           and
           augment
           their
           Reverence
           towards
           the
           Pope
           and
           his
           Clergy
           ;
           but
           what-ever
           be
           in
           this
           ,
           it
           is
           abundantly
           manifest
           that
           there
           can
           be
           nothing
           more
           contrary
           to
           this
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           and
           Charity
           than
           Romish
           Principles
           ,
           and
           that
           no
           man
           of
           that
           Religion
           ,
           without
           deserting
           his
           Principles
           ,
           can
           pretend
           to
           it
           .
        
         
           As
           to
           the
           other
           Principle
           of
           Persecution
           ,
           how
           much
           it
           is
           Preached
           and
           practised
           in
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           will
           need
           no
           great
           Probation
           :
           Those
           that
           are
           acquainted
           with
           ,
           or
           have
           heard
           of
           the
           
             Spanish
             Inquisition
          
           ,
           of
           the
           many
           Inhumain
           Butcheries
           and
           Massacres
           committed
           both
           in
           France
           ,
           and
           the
           Netherlands
           ,
           upon
           Men
           meerly
           for
           the
           matter
           of
           their
           Consciences
           ;
           the
           many
           Plots
           ,
           Consultations
           ,
           Combinings
           ,
           and
           Wars
           ,
           contrived
           ,
           fomented
           ,
           and
           carryed
           on
           by
           the
           Bishops
           of
           Rome
           themselves
           ,
           and
           the
           chief
           of
           their
           Clergy
           ,
           yielding
           large
           and
           voluntary
           Contributions
           thereto
           for
           to
           ruin
           and
           root
           out
           the
           Dissenters
           from
           the
           Romish
           Society
           ,
           after
           Luther
           appeared
           ;
           cannot
           but
           see
           how
           natural
           and
           consequential
           it
           is
           to
           Romish
           Principles
           so
           to
           do
           :
           And
           thence
           also
           observe
           how
           contrary
           and
           opposite
           these
           things
           are
           to
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           and
           Charity
           ,
           and
           how
           much
           they
           act
           the
           Hypocrite
           when
           they
           pretend
           Christian
           Charity
           to
           any
           that
           differ
           from
           them
           .
        
         
         
           And
           this
           manifestly
           appears
           in
           these
           two
           ,
           which
           none
           of
           them
           that
           has
           understanding
           to
           know
           ,
           or
           honesty
           to
           confess
           their
           Principles
           can
           deny
           :
           I
           might
           also
           add
           a
           third
           ,
           which
           Albeit
           ,
           by
           some
           Popish
           Doctors
           in
           some
           Nations
           it
           be
           denyed
           ,
           yet
           is
           no
           less
           firmly
           believed
           and
           contended
           for
           by
           other
           eminent
           Persons
           among
           them
           ,
           especially
           Bellarmine
           ,
           and
           approved
           by
           the
           Pope
           himself
           ;
           to
           wit
           ,
           the
           Popes
           power
           to
           depose
           Princes
           in
           case
           of
           Heresie
           ,
           and
           give
           their
           Kingdoms
           to
           others
           ,
           allowing
           them
           upon
           that
           account
           to
           fight
           against
           them
           ,
           and
           accounting
           their
           so
           purchaseing
           of
           them
           ,
           lawful
           .
           Small
           offences
           heretofore
           would
           have
           provoked
           to
           this
           Sentence
           ,
           as
           appeared
           in
           the
           example
           of
           Hildebrand
           and
           others
           ;
           but
           of
           late
           he
           is
           more
           sparing
           and
           deliberate
           in
           his
           denuntiations
           ,
           finding
           his
           Authority
           less
           regarded
           ,
           and
           his
           power
           to
           bring
           to
           obedience
           much
           abbreviated
           :
           But
           surely
           this
           principle
           cannot
           consist
           with
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           ,
           when
           that
           ,
           which
           by
           all
           is
           acknowledged
           to
           be
           an
           Ordinance
           of
           God
           ,
           doth
           not
           secure
           the
           lawful
           Administrators
           thereof
           from
           the
           bitterness
           of
           it
           :
           If
           you
           will
           not
           allow
           a
           King
           to
           be
           a
           King
           ,
           Albeit
           ,
           his
           right
           and
           title
           so
           to
           be
           ,
           is
           every
           way
           as
           good
           as
           such
           among
           your selves
           ,
           unless
           he
           be
           of
           your
           mind
           ,
           certainly
           there
           is
           but
           small
           hopes
           of
           your
           Charity
           to
           other
           persons
           .
           There
           might
           be
           much
           more
           said
           and
           enlarged
           as
           well
           upon
           this
           as
           other
           things
           ,
           which
           sufficiently
           evidenceth
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           can
           have
           no
           just
           claim
           to
           this
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           ,
           which
           I
           purposely
           ,
           to
           avoyd
           all
           manner
           of
           prolixity
           ,
           do
           omit
           .
        
         
           The
           great
           variety
           of
           Doctrines
           among
           Protestants
           so
           called
           ,
           will
           make
           it
           somewhat
           harder
           to
           decipher
           them
           particularly
           in
           this
           matter
           ;
           yet
           to
           take
           first
           notice
           of
           those
           ,
           who
           by
           their
           most
           publick
           Confessions
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           by
           their
           possession
           of
           whole
           Nations
           ,
           are
           most
           commonly
           and
           Universally
           understood
           to
           bear
           that
           name
           ,
           (
           to
           wit
           )
           the
           Lutherans
           and
           Calvenists
           seems
           most
           regular
           .
        
         
           And
           because
           of
           their
           Unity
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           of
           several
           others
           in
           that
           doctrine
           and
           practice
           of
           Persecution
           ,
           I
           shall
           make
           
           my
           first
           observation
           from
           thence
           ,
           which
           being
           not
           only
           held
           by
           them
           ,
           but
           also
           by
           several
           others
           dissenting
           from
           both
           of
           them
           ,
           may
           be
           termed
           (
           the
           more
           the
           pitty
           )
           a
           general
           Doctrine
           of
           Protestants
           ;
           how
           far
           this
           contradicts
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           ,
           is
           before-mentioned
           .
           But
           as
           to
           them
           ,
           it
           has
           this
           additional
           aggravation
           which
           is
           very
           considerable
           that
           they
           do
           ,
           and
           that
           upon
           their
           owned
           Principles
           so
           rigorously
           persecute
           one
           another
           ,
           not
           permitting
           one
           another
           the
           free
           exercise
           of
           their
           Conscience
           in
           their
           respective
           Dominions
           ;
           Albeit
           ,
           they
           acknowledge
           that
           they
           agree
           in
           Fundamentals
           ,
           and
           that
           they
           have
           both
           upon
           the
           same
           design
           of
           Reformation
           departed
           from
           Antechrist
           ;
           how
           then
           can
           these
           Men
           pretend
           to
           any
           thing
           of
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           or
           Charity
           ,
           who
           upon
           so
           small
           difference
           by
           themselves
           ,
           not
           esteemed
           Fundamental
           ,
           do
           deny
           one
           another
           the
           very
           common
           and
           natural
           Benefits
           of
           the
           Creation
           ?
           And
           of
           this
           the
           Island
           of
           
             Great
             Brittain
          
           can
           give
           good
           evidence
           :
           for
           Albeit
           ,
           the
           Protestants
           there
           be
           in
           a
           sense
           all
           Calvenists
           ,
           or
           at
           lest
           ,
           not
           at
           variance
           in
           that
           which
           was
           ,
           and
           is
           the
           great
           Controversie
           among
           the
           Lutherans
           and
           Calvenists
           abroad
           ;
           and
           that
           their
           difference
           lye
           only
           in
           the
           matter
           of
           the
           Government
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           and
           some
           other
           Ceremonies
           ;
           many
           of
           which
           ,
           Calvin
           himself
           confesseth
           not
           to
           be
           of
           that
           consequence
           for
           which
           the
           Godly
           should
           be
           at
           variance
           ;
           yet
           how
           little
           Charity
           they
           have
           to
           one
           another
           ,
           and
           how
           great
           and
           irreconcilable
           prejudice
           and
           malice
           ,
           is
           openly
           known
           to
           the
           World
           :
           So
           that
           upon
           this
           account
           ,
           the
           Prelatick
           Party
           has
           Persecuted
           the
           Presbyterian
           ,
           and
           the
           Presbyterian
           them
           ,
           as
           they
           respectively
           found
           themselves
           in
           a
           Capacity
           to
           do
           it
           ,
           not
           only
           to
           the
           ejection
           of
           the
           Clergy
           for
           this
           difference
           out
           of
           their
           Function
           ,
           and
           the
           Excommunication
           and
           publickly
           Cursing
           one
           of
           another
           ,
           but
           also
           to
           the
           turning
           in
           and
           out
           of
           State-Officers
           ,
           to
           the
           Imprisoning
           ,
           Forfeiting
           ,
           Banishing
           ,
           yea
           ,
           and
           judicial
           Execution
           both
           of
           private
           and
           publick
           Persons
           ;
           not
           to
           mention
           the
           horrible
           devastations
           and
           publick
           Wars
           ,
           whereby
           
           by
           this
           Island
           became
           as
           a
           bloody
           Tragedy
           ,
           to
           the
           ruin
           of
           thousands
           of
           Families
           ,
           which
           took
           its
           rise
           from
           their
           differences
           ,
           and
           was
           carryed
           and
           fomented
           from
           the
           very
           Pulpits
           under
           this
           notion
           ;
           also
           those
           common
           and
           usual
           denominations
           ,
           wherewith
           they
           used
           ,
           and
           yet
           do
           design
           on
           one
           another
           ,
           are
           not
           unknown
           ,
           as
           self-seeking
           and
           self-separating
           Hypocrites
           ,
           seditious
           Incendaries
           ,
           presumptuous
           Rebels
           ;
           and
           on
           the
           other
           hand
           ,
           Proud
           and
           Bloody
           Prelates
           ,
           Ignorant
           and
           Ungodly
           Curates
           ,
           Wicked
           and
           Hateful
           Malignants
           ,
           Idolatrous
           and
           Superstitious
           .
        
         
           I
           could
           also
           ,
           were
           it
           not
           both
           tedious
           and
           troublesom
           to
           repeat
           such
           stuff
           ,
           give
           instance
           of
           not
           much
           less
           severity
           and
           reproaches
           ,
           very
           near
           of
           the
           same
           quality
           ,
           that
           have
           passed
           betwixt
           other
           subdivided
           species
           of
           Calvenists
           ,
           as
           betwixt
           the
           Remonstrants
           and
           Contra-Remonstrants
           in
           Holland
           ,
           upon
           the
           difference
           of
           their
           Principles
           ;
           Albeit
           ,
           they
           agree
           in
           the
           matter
           of
           Government
           :
           And
           the
           English
           Presbyterians
           and
           Independents
           ,
           who
           quarrel
           not
           much
           (
           at
           lest
           the
           generality
           of
           them
           ,
           as
           themselves
           are
           willing
           the
           World
           should
           believe
           )
           about
           Principles
           ,
           but
           only
           in
           a
           small
           circumstance
           of
           Government
           ,
           all
           which
           doth
           well
           witness
           how
           void
           those
           men
           are
           of
           true
           Charity
           ,
           and
           how
           far
           from
           that
           true
           
             Universal
             Christian
             Love
          
           ,
           so
           much
           commended
           and
           pretended
           to
           by
           them
           ,
           especially
           considering
           that
           these
           are
           not
           only
           some
           personal
           Infirmities
           or
           escapes
           of
           private
           persons
           among
           them
           ,
           but
           the
           universal
           ,
           necessary
           and
           consequential
           effects
           of
           their
           respective
           Principles
           ,
           which
           proceed
           from
           them
           as
           men
           so
           circumstantiated
           and
           related
           to
           such
           and
           such
           Fellowships
           and
           Societies
           .
        
         
           There
           is
           another
           Principle
           ,
           not
           only
           common
           both
           to
           Lutheran
           and
           Calvanists
           ,
           hut
           even
           to
           these
           subdivided
           Calvinists
           ,
           I
           mean
           the
           Episcopalians
           and
           Presbyterians
           ,
           which
           cannot
           but
           obstruct
           and
           necessarily
           hinder
           this
           
             Universal
             Love.
          
           To
           wit
           ,
           the
           pressing
           after
           ,
           and
           seeking
           to
           establish
           a
           National
           Church
           ,
           whereby
           upon
           the
           Magistrates
           ,
           or
           great
           part
           imbracing
           any
           Religion
           ,
           they
           distribute
           the
           whole
           Kingdom
           
           into
           several
           Parishes
           or
           Congregations
           ,
           and
           appoint
           Preachers
           of
           that
           way
           to
           them
           all
           ;
           so
           that
           a
           man
           cannot
           be
           a
           Member
           of
           the
           State
           ,
           without
           he
           be
           a
           Member
           of
           the
           Church
           also
           ;
           and
           he
           is
           robbed
           of
           the
           very
           Priviledges
           which
           he
           ought
           to
           enjoy
           as
           a
           Man
           ,
           unless
           he
           will
           agree
           ,
           Albeit
           ,
           against
           his
           Conscience
           ,
           to
           every
           Circumstance
           of
           that
           Church
           ,
           which
           is
           established
           in
           the
           Country
           he
           lives
           ,
           for
           the
           making
           of
           which
           the
           more
           effectual
           ,
           the
           Law
           in
           our
           Country
           provides
           ,
           that
           when
           a
           Man
           is
           Excommunicate
           ,
           or
           cast
           out
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           is
           also
           cast
           out
           of
           the
           State
           ;
           so
           that
           a
           Man
           upon
           the
           Churches
           Censure
           ,
           for
           a
           matter
           meerly
           Conscientious
           ,
           incurrs
           the
           same
           hazard
           of
           the
           loss
           of
           his
           Estate
           and
           Liberty
           ,
           as
           if
           he
           had
           been
           guilty
           of
           some
           hainous
           Crime
           towards
           the
           State.
           But
           how
           can
           those
           pretend
           to
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           that
           has
           thus
           so
           confined
           all
           ,
           both
           Spiritual
           and
           Temporal
           Blessings
           to
           their
           Sect
           ,
           that
           they
           think
           not
           Men
           worthy
           to
           live
           as
           Men
           ,
           or
           breath
           the
           common
           air
           ,
           unless
           they
           will
           subscribe
           to
           all
           their
           Sentiments
           .
           Surely
           this
           is
           far
           from
           the
           
             Nature
             of
             God's
             Love
          
           ,
           that
           causes
           his
           Sun
           to
           rise
           both
           upon
           the
           Just
           and
           Unjust
           .
           Thus
           far
           as
           to
           Persecution
           ,
           and
           what
           depends
           upon
           it
           .
        
         
           I
           observed
           before
           that
           the
           general
           defect
           of
           this
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           did
           proceed
           from
           wrong
           Notions
           concerning
           the
           
             Love
             of
             God
          
           ;
           for
           such
           as
           confined
           
             God's
             Love
          
           ,
           did
           consequentially
           confine
           their
           own
           .
           Now
           the
           chief
           way
           ,
           whereby
           men
           by
           their
           own
           narrow
           Opinions
           ,
           seek
           to
           limit
           and
           confine
           the
           
             Universal
             Love
             of
             God
          
           ,
           is
           by
           proposing
           the
           necessary
           means
           of
           Salvation
           appointed
           by
           God
           ,
           as
           not
           reaching
           to
           all
           ,
           for
           such
           ,
           to
           whom
           they
           reach
           not
           ,
           we
           cannot
           suppose
           to
           have
           any
           real
           Love
           extended
           to
           them
           :
           In
           this
           the
           generality
           of
           Protestants
           are
           deficient
           ;
           Albeit
           ,
           some
           exceed
           others
           in
           a
           particular
           respect
           ,
           as
           shall
           be
           hereafter
           observed
           .
        
         
           That
           wherein
           they
           are
           generally
           wanting
           ,
           is
           by
           affirming
           that
           there
           can
           be
           no
           Salvation
           without
           the
           explicit
           knowledge
           of
           Christ
           ,
           and
           benefit
           of
           the
           Scriptures
           .
           This
           
           is
           held
           both
           by
           
             Lutherans
             ,
             Calvenists
          
           ,
           and
           Arminians
           ;
           I
           mean
           by
           these
           Churches
           ,
           whatever
           may
           be
           the
           private
           Sentiments
           of
           particular
           persons
           among
           them
           .
        
         
           Now
           whereas
           all
           these
           do
           acknowledge
           that
           many
           thousands
           ,
           yea
           ,
           whole
           Nations
           ,
           have
           been
           ,
           and
           are
           excluded
           from
           the
           benefit
           of
           this
           knowledge
           ,
           they
           must
           necessarily
           conclude
           Salvation
           impossible
           to
           them
           ,
           and
           so
           they
           can
           have
           no
           Charity
           for
           them
           ,
           so
           as
           to
           suppose
           a
           possibility
           of
           Salvation
           to
           them
           .
           And
           this
           goes
           directly
           against
           ,
           and
           destroys
           the
           nature
           of
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           ,
           which
           cannot
           be
           entertained
           towards
           any
           ,
           but
           upon
           the
           supposition
           that
           they
           are
           under
           a
           possibility
           of
           being
           saved
           ,
           or
           that
           those
           circumstances
           they
           are
           under
           ,
           not
           being
           in
           themselves
           ,
           simply
           considered
           sinful
           as
           being
           such
           ,
           as
           is
           not
           in
           them
           to
           help
           ,
           do
           not
           absolutely
           exclude
           them
           from
           it
           :
           I
           confess
           that
           I
           cannot
           have
           Charity
           to
           a
           wicked
           Man
           ,
           that
           he
           can
           be
           saved
           so
           long
           as
           he
           continues
           wicked
           ;
           and
           if
           thence
           any
           should
           seek
           to
           infer
           ,
           that
           so
           likewise
           we
           cannot
           have
           Charity
           to
           those
           men
           that
           want
           the
           Scriptures
           ,
           and
           the
           outward
           knowledge
           of
           Christ
           ,
           that
           they
           can
           be
           saved
           so
           long
           as
           they
           want
           that
           .
           Therefore
           as
           the
           one
           is
           not
           contrary
           to
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           ,
           neither
           is
           the
           other
           .
           I
           Answer
           :
           The
           Comparison
           holds
           not
           at
           all
           ,
           because
           the
           ground
           of
           my
           not
           having
           Chaty
           to
           him
           ,
           is
           his
           continuing
           in
           a
           thing
           which
           himself
           knows
           to
           be
           displeasing
           to
           God
           ,
           by
           the
           Law
           of
           God
           which
           he
           has
           revealed
           to
           him
           ,
           and
           acknowledges
           to
           be
           good
           ;
           and
           therefore
           the
           ground
           of
           my
           hopes
           of
           him
           ,
           that
           he
           may
           be
           saved
           if
           he
           Repents
           ,
           is
           ,
           because
           he
           knows
           the
           means
           how
           to
           Repent
           ,
           and
           be
           Converted
           ;
           so
           my
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           ,
           reaches
           to
           him
           not
           only
           in
           that
           I
           believe
           't
           is
           possible
           for
           God
           to
           bring
           him
           out
           of
           his
           Wickedness
           ;
           but
           in
           that
           I
           acknowledge
           that
           God
           in
           order
           thereto
           ,
           has
           actually
           made
           manifest
           to
           him
           the
           way
           how
           he
           may
           be
           Converted
           ,
           and
           so
           I
           exclude
           him
           not
           from
           the
           
             Universal
             Love
             of
             God
          
           ,
           which
           I
           suppose
           in
           that
           manifestation
           of
           his
           will
           ,
           to
           have
           already
           really
           ,
           touched
           and
           reached
           him
           .
           But
           the
           other
           case
           has
           
           no
           parity
           with
           this
           ;
           for
           first
           ,
           that
           defect
           of
           the
           Scriptures
           and
           outward
           knowledge
           of
           Christ
           in
           an
           Indian
           or
           American
           ,
           &c.
           is
           no
           wilful
           malitious
           act
           of
           them
           against
           any
           Law
           known
           to
           them
           ,
           but
           is
           the
           meer
           providence
           of
           God
           by
           them
           inevitable
           ;
           neither
           is
           it
           unto
           them
           any
           moral
           evil
           ,
           that
           they
           are
           born
           or
           brought
           up
           in
           these
           parts
           ,
           or
           come
           not
           to
           those
           places
           where
           they
           may
           learn
           and
           find
           that
           knowledge
           :
           If
           I
           then
           judge
           that
           
             God's
             Love
          
           reaches
           not
           any
           such
           ,
           whom
           by
           this
           Providence
           he
           has
           permitted
           to
           be
           thus
           Born
           and
           Educated
           in
           order
           to
           save
           them
           ,
           my
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           can
           no
           ways
           reach
           to
           them
           ,
           so
           as
           to
           suppose
           Salvation
           possible
           to
           them
           ,
           not
           because
           they
           refuse
           or
           resist
           the
           means
           of
           Knowledge
           and
           Salvation
           appointed
           to
           them
           of
           God
           ,
           but
           because
           they
           want
           it
           by
           the
           will
           of
           God
           ,
           who
           thought
           not
           meet
           to
           give
           it
           to
           them
           ,
           I
           look
           not
           upon
           it
           as
           my
           work
           in
           this
           Treatise
           to
           refute
           this
           Doctrine
           ,
           and
           shew
           its
           Contrariety
           to
           Truth
           and
           Scripture
           ,
           having
           done
           that
           largely
           else-where
           ,
           as
           in
           my
           Apology
           ,
           Expl.
           of
           the
           5th
           .
           and
           6th
           .
           Proposition
           ;
           it
           is
           enough
           here
           that
           I
           shew
           that
           such
           as
           hold
           this
           Opinion
           cannot
           justly
           pretend
           to
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           ,
           as
           doth
           evidently
           appear
           by
           what
           is
           said
           ,
           and
           needs
           no
           further
           Question
           .
        
         
           Perhaps
           the
           Socinians
           may
           step
           in
           here
           ,
           or
           others
           of
           more
           general
           Principles
           ,
           who
           will
           affirm
           they
           do
           not
           believe
           that
           the
           want
           of
           this
           explicit
           knowledge
           doth
           necessarily
           exclude
           Men
           from
           Salvation
           :
           It
           is
           true
           ,
           there
           are
           some
           of
           that
           mind
           ,
           but
           it
           were
           hard
           to
           rank
           them
           under
           any
           particular
           denomination
           ,
           it
           being
           rather
           a
           Notion
           of
           these
           Men
           ,
           of
           whom
           I
           made
           mention
           before
           ,
           that
           are
           uncertain
           in
           their
           Principles
           ,
           and
           joyn
           with
           no
           people
           absolutely
           ,
           then
           acknowledged
           by
           a
           people
           or
           any
           publick
           Confession
           of
           any
           united
           or
           gathered
           Church
           and
           People
           .
        
         
           The
           Socinians
           generally
           lay
           very
           great
           stress
           upon
           the
           outward
           knowledge
           of
           Christ
           ,
           &
           do
           believe
           the
           outward
           knowledge
           of
           Christ
           ,
           or
           of
           the
           Resurrection
           at
           least
           ,
           to
           be
           absolutely
           needful
           ,
           
           holding
           the
           sufficiency
           of
           that
           alone
           upon
           ,
           Rom.
           10.
           9.
           
           But
           passing
           that
           ,
           and
           taking
           it
           for
           granted
           that
           the
           generality
           of
           Socinians
           ,
           and
           several
           others
           with
           them
           ,
           who
           being
           all
           taken
           in
           Cumulo
           ,
           may
           pass
           ,
           for
           as
           much
           as
           a
           whole
           body
           of
           people
           do
           believe
           and
           affirm
           Salvation
           even
           possible
           to
           such
           as
           are
           by
           an
           inevitable
           Fate
           excluded
           from
           the
           benefit
           of
           that
           external
           knowledge
           ,
           in
           that
           they
           say
           that
           such
           as
           will
           improve
           that
           light
           of
           Nature
           which
           all
           Men
           have
           given
           them
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           exercise
           that
           common
           Principle
           of
           Reason
           ,
           may
           from
           the
           works
           of
           Creation
           and
           Providence
           ,
           certainly
           conclude
           
             that
             there
             is
             a
             God
          
           ,
           forsake
           many
           evils
           ,
           and
           do
           much
           good
           ;
           and
           that
           such
           as
           do
           thus
           improve
           this
           natural
           and
           common
           light
           ,
           do
           obtain
           of
           God
           ,
           to
           send
           them
           miraculously
           either
           some
           Man
           or
           Angel
           to
           signifie
           to
           them
           the
           outward
           knowledge
           or
           Resurrection
           of
           Christ
           ,
           that
           they
           may
           believe
           it
           ,
           and
           be
           saved
           .
        
         
           I
           Answer
           :
           This
           doth
           not
           reach
           the
           full
           extent
           of
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           ,
           because
           it
           still
           limiteth
           it
           to
           this
           external
           knowledge
           ,
           and
           supposeth
           no
           means
           of
           Salvation
           without
           it
           .
           And
           next
           ,
           because
           it
           supposeth
           somewhat
           Miraculous
           ,
           which
           as
           has
           been
           before
           observed
           ,
           is
           a
           limitation
           not
           to
           be
           admitted
           in
           this
           case
           :
           But
           if
           any
           would
           affirm
           that
           the
           improving
           of
           this
           Natural
           Light
           proved
           to
           them
           a
           means
           of
           Salvation
           ,
           without
           supposing
           any
           necessity
           of
           having
           the
           outward
           knowledge
           of
           Christ
           at
           all
           ;
           Albeit
           ,
           it
           would
           see●
           by
           the
           extent
           of
           their
           Charity
           ,
           that
           their
           Love
           were
           very
           universal
           ,
           yet
           they
           do
           not
           establish
           true
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           more
           than
           the
           other
           ,
           because
           nothing
           is
           true
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           ,
           but
           that
           which
           naturally
           proceedeth
           from
           the
           true
           Love
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           is
           founded
           upon
           good
           and
           sound
           Principles
           deduced
           there-from
           ,
           and
           which
           hath
           not
           its
           rise
           from
           the
           love
           of
           Self
           ,
           or
           from
           a
           selfish
           principle
           ;
           which
           though
           it
           may
           have
           a
           shew
           of
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           ,
           is
           not
           really
           such
           ,
           else
           ,
           he
           that
           would
           affirm
           he
           believed
           that
           all
           men
           ,
           as
           well
           the
           Wicked
           as
           the
           Godly
           ,
           the
           Unbelieving
           as
           the
           Believing
           ,
           
           should
           be
           saved
           ,
           and
           that
           no
           wickedness
           can
           hinder
           a
           Man
           from
           being
           saved
           ,
           might
           be
           said
           to
           be
           a
           truer
           Preacher
           of
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           than
           any
           ,
           and
           most
           Charitable
           of
           all
           Men
           ;
           and
           yet
           how
           would
           this
           be
           justly
           condemned
           by
           all
           Christians
           :
           There
           can
           then
           be
           no
           true
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           but
           that
           which
           is
           built
           upon
           the
           love
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           is
           pure
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           nature
           of
           it
           :
           So
           then
           those
           that
           affirm
           that
           men
           may
           be
           saved
           (
           even
           without
           the
           outward
           knowledge
           of
           Christ
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           Scriptures
           )
           if
           they
           improve
           the
           light
           of
           Nature
           ;
           whether
           it
           be
           that
           they
           judge
           that
           the
           light
           of
           Nature
           can
           carry
           them
           through
           to
           the
           end
           ,
           and
           accomplish
           the
           work
           ,
           or
           that
           they
           suppose
           the
           improving
           of
           it
           ,
           will
           procure
           any
           such
           Miraculous
           Revelation
           ;
           do
           not
           truly
           Preach
           or
           establish
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           ,
           because
           the
           same
           is
           not
           founded
           upon
           the
           true
           Love
           of
           God
           ,
           but
           is
           an
           exalting
           of
           the
           Nature
           and
           Reason
           of
           Man
           ,
           which
           is
           really
           defiled
           ,
           and
           proceeds
           from
           Self
           :
           Since
           these
           Men
           ,
           for
           the
           most
           part
           ,
           do
           look
           upon
           Grace
           ,
           or
           the
           operation
           of
           the
           Spirit
           in
           the
           Saints
           ,
           as
           but
           a
           meer
           fancy
           ,
           so
           I
           say
           these
           men
           do
           not
           commend
           the
           true
           Love
           of
           God
           ,
           which
           is
           contrary
           to
           Self
           ,
           but
           only
           their
           own
           corrupt
           Nature
           and
           Reason
           ,
           and
           do
           therefore
           really
           oppose
           and
           slight
           the
           Universal
           Love
           of
           God
           ,
           in
           that
           they
           suppose
           Man
           capable
           of
           himself
           ,
           to
           save
           himself
           ,
           without
           Christ
           the
           alone
           Mediator
           ,
           in
           and
           by
           whom
           the
           
             Universal
             Love
             of
             God
             to
             all
             is
          
           only
           extended
           ,
           for
           whom
           ever
           God
           loves
           ,
           he
           loves
           them
           in
           Christ
           ,
           and
           no
           other
           ways
           ;
           and
           this
           Love
           of
           God
           in
           Christ
           cannot
           be
           truly
           received
           and
           entertained
           to
           the
           Salvation
           of
           the
           Soul
           ,
           but
           as
           the
           Old.
           Man
           ,
           the
           first
           Man
           with
           his
           deeds
           ,
           which
           are
           altogether
           corrupted
           ,
           and
           can
           claim
           no
           share
           in
           Mans
           Salvation
           ,
           is
           put
           off
           and
           done
           away
           ;
           and
           as
           the
           
             New
             Man
          
           that
           proceeds
           from
           a
           Divine
           Spiritual
           Seed
           ,
           which
           is
           not
           of
           ,
           nor
           from
           Mans
           Nature
           ,
           comes
           to
           be
           born
           and
           brought
           forth
           in
           the
           soul.
           But
           much
           more
           do
           they
           contradict
           and
           declare
           themselves
           void
           of
           ,
           and
           Strangers
           to
           the
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           ,
           who
           hold
           the
           precise
           decree
           of
           Reprobation
           ,
           with
           the
           other
           
           principles
           depending
           thereupon
           ,
           in
           believing
           that
           the
           far
           greater
           number
           ,
           not
           only
           of
           Man-kind
           ,
           but
           even
           of
           those
           that
           profess
           the
           Name
           of
           Christ
           ,
           are
           necessarily
           damn'd
           ,
           and
           that
           by
           Vertue
           of
           God's
           absolute
           decree
           ,
           who
           from
           all
           Eternity
           ordained
           to
           Create
           them
           for
           that
           very
           end
           ,
           and
           appointed
           them
           to
           walk
           in
           such
           Wickedness
           ,
           for
           which
           he
           might
           Condemn
           them
           ,
           and
           punish
           them
           Eternally
           :
           So
           that
           not
           only
           such
           as
           are
           ignorant
           of
           the
           History
           of
           Christ
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           Scriptures
           ,
           are
           certainly
           Damned
           ;
           but
           even
           most
           of
           those
           who
           have
           the
           benefit
           of
           this
           Knowledge
           ,
           are
           notwithstanding
           Damned
           also
           ,
           for
           not
           right
           using
           and
           applying
           the
           same
           ,
           which
           miserable
           Crime
           they
           necessarily
           fall
           in
           ,
           because
           that
           God
           ,
           Albeit
           ,
           He
           publickly
           ,
           and
           by
           his
           revealed
           Will
           doth
           invite
           them
           all
           to
           Salvation
           ,
           yet
           by
           a
           secret
           Will
           unknown
           to
           Men
           ,
           He
           doth
           with-hold
           from
           them
           all
           Power
           and
           Grace
           so
           to
           do
           .
           Now
           I
           say
           ,
           whoever
           are
           of
           this
           mind
           ,
           as
           all
           Calvinists
           generally
           are
           ,
           cannot
           justly
           pretend
           to
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           ;
           for
           seeing
           they
           limit
           
             the
             Love
             of
             God
          
           to
           a
           small
           number
           ,
           making
           all
           the
           rest
           only
           objects
           of
           his
           Wrath
           and
           Indignation
           ,
           they
           must
           by
           consequence
           so
           limit
           their
           own
           Love
           also
           :
           For
           God
           being
           the
           Fountain
           and
           Author
           of
           Love
           ,
           no
           man
           can
           extend
           true
           Christian
           Love
           beyond
           his
           ;
           yea
           ,
           the
           greatest
           and
           highest
           Love
           of
           any
           Man
           ,
           falls
           infinitely
           short
           of
           the
           
             Love
             of
             God
          
           ,
           even
           as
           far
           as
           a
           little
           drop
           of
           water
           falls
           short
           of
           the
           great
           Ocean
           .
           Now
           none
           of
           these
           Men
           ,
           without
           manifestly
           contradicting
           their
           own
           Principles
           ,
           can
           pretend
           to
           have
           Love
           to
           any
           of
           those
           that
           are
           thus
           predestinated
           to
           Death
           ;
           for
           what
           sottishness
           were
           it
           ,
           and
           inconsistency
           to
           pretend
           Charity
           to
           such
           so
           ,
           as
           to
           suppose
           a
           possibility
           of
           Salvation
           for
           those
           whom
           God
           hath
           appointed
           to
           be
           Damned
           ,
           and
           to
           be
           Sons
           of
           Predition
           ;
           for
           to
           say
           we
           ought
           to
           have
           Charity
           to
           all
           ,
           because
           we
           know
           not
           who
           is
           appointed
           to
           Life
           ,
           or
           may
           be
           called
           to
           it
           ,
           saith
           nothing
           to
           solve
           this
           difficulty
           ,
           because
           even
           to
           such
           as
           may
           be
           supposed
           to
           be
           Elected
           ,
           I
           am
           not
           to
           have
           Charity
           ,
           so
           long
           as
           I
           see
           them
           in
           Wickedness
           ,
           
           and
           in
           any
           unconverted
           state
           ,
           for
           that
           were
           to
           walk
           against
           all
           true
           judgment
           ,
           and
           a
           putting
           light
           for
           darkness
           ,
           and
           darkness
           for
           light
           ;
           a
           calling
           good
           ,
           evil
           ;
           and
           evil
           ,
           good
           ;
           which
           is
           expresly
           forbidden
           .
        
         
           Next
           ,
           this
           were
           to
           make
           true
           Christian-Love
           as
           blind
           as
           the
           heathens
           supposed
           their
           god
           of
           their
           Lustful
           Love
           to
           be
           ;
           for
           I
           ought
           to
           love
           Men
           for
           some
           real
           good
           I
           see
           in
           them
           ,
           as
           feeling
           them
           to
           partake
           of
           ,
           and
           grow
           in
           the
           Love
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           not
           upon
           a
           meer
           perhaps
           God
           may
           do
           them
           good
           ,
           perhaps
           they
           may
           be
           called
           ,
           unless
           I
           believed
           there
           were
           something
           of
           God
           in
           all
           given
           them
           in
           order
           to
           call
           them
           .
        
         
           Thirdly
           :
           Seeing
           these
           Men
           do
           believe
           and
           affirm
           that
           God
           in
           this
           case
           appoints
           the
           end
           ,
           so
           he
           doth
           the
           means
           also
           ;
           they
           are
           not
           only
           obliged
           upon
           their
           Principle
           without
           all
           Charity
           ,
           to
           conclude
           as
           Damned
           ,
           and
           appointed
           to
           Damnation
           all
           such
           as
           have
           not
           the
           benefit
           of
           these
           means
           they
           think
           needful
           ,
           but
           even
           all
           such
           among
           themselves
           enjoying
           these
           means
           in
           whom
           appears
           not
           ,
           according
           to
           their
           notion
           of
           it
           ,
           true
           and
           convincing
           tokens
           of
           Conversion
           .
           And
           as
           this
           Doctrin
           naturally
           leads
           from
           any
           thing
           like
           
             Universal
             Love.
          
           So
           as
           I
           observed
           before
           ,
           it
           so
           leaveneth
           and
           defileth
           with
           an
           unlovely
           humour
           ,
           such
           as
           strictly
           and
           precisely
           hold
           it
           ,
           that
           for
           most
           part
           they
           are
           observed
           to
           be
           Men
           of
           peevish
           and
           persecuting
           spirits
           .
        
         
           For
           these
           two
           Principles
           ,
           to
           wit
           ,
           that
           of
           there
           being
           no
           Salvation
           without
           the
           Church
           among
           Papists
           ,
           as
           precisely
           understanding
           it
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           and
           this
           of
           absolute
           Reprobation
           among
           Protestants
           ,
           are
           the
           very
           root
           and
           spring
           ,
           from
           whence
           flows
           that
           Bloody
           and
           Antichristian
           tenet
           of
           Persecution
           for
           the
           case
           of
           Conscience
           ;
           and
           therefore
           both
           it
           and
           they
           are
           directly
           contrary
           and
           diametrically
           opposite
           to
           the
           true
           Catholick-Christian
           Love
           of
           God.
           
        
      
       
         
         
           SECT
           .
           V.
           
        
         
           Some
           Principles
           of
           Christianity
           proposed
           ,
           as
           they
           are
           held
           by
           a
           great
           body
           of
           People
           ,
           and
           whole
           gathered
           Churches
           in
           Brittain
           and
           Ireland
           ,
           which
           do
           very
           well
           agree
           with
           true
           Universal
           Love.
           
        
         
           SUch
           as
           most
           commonly
           complain
           for
           the
           want
           of
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           ,
           do
           alledg
           this
           defect
           to
           proceed
           from
           the
           nature
           of
           a
           Sect
           ,
           unto
           which
           they
           think
           this
           want
           of
           Charity
           so
           peculiar
           ,
           that
           from
           thence
           they
           conclude
           that
           it
           is
           impossible
           either
           for
           any
           Sect
           universally
           to
           have
           this
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           ,
           or
           for
           any
           Member
           of
           a
           Sect
           ,
           so
           long
           as
           he
           stands
           to
           his
           Principles
           ,
           or
           is
           strictly
           bound
           up
           and
           tyed
           to
           a
           Sect
           to
           have
           this
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           ;
           and
           indeed
           this
           in
           a
           great
           measure
           is
           too
           true
           ,
           if
           the
           nature
           of
           a
           Sect
           be
           rightly
           understood
           ,
           and
           therefore
           to
           avoid
           mistakes
           ,
           it
           will
           be
           fit
           to
           enquire
           somewhat
           in
           this
           matter
           .
        
         
           A
           Sect
           is
           commonly
           and
           universally
           taken
           in
           the
           worst
           part
           ,
           and
           alwayes
           so
           understood
           ;
           where
           it
           is
           mentioned
           in
           the
           Scripture
           ,
           as
           being
           either
           really
           understood
           of
           such
           as
           are
           justly
           so
           termed
           ,
           
             Act.
             5.
             17.
             
             Ch.
             5.
             5.
             
             Ch.
          
           26.
           5.
           or
           reproachfully
           cast
           upon
           such
           as
           ought
           not
           to
           have
           been
           so
           denominated
           ,
           
             Act.
             24.
             5.
             
             Ch.
          
           28.
           22.
           
           For
           a
           Sect
           is
           a
           company
           of
           People
           following
           the
           Opinions
           and
           Inventions
           of
           a
           particular
           Man
           or
           Men
           ,
           to
           which
           they
           adhere
           more
           ,
           and
           for
           which
           they
           are
           more
           Zealous
           than
           for
           the
           simple
           ,
           plain
           ,
           and
           necessary
           Doctrine
           of
           Christ.
           But
           such
           as
           are
           not
           a
           Sect
           ,
           nor
           of
           a
           Sect
           ,
           are
           those
           that
           follow
           the
           Faith
           and
           Doctrines
           of
           Christ
           ,
           and
           receive
           and
           believe
           the
           same
           ,
           as
           purely
           Preached
           and
           held
           forth
           by
           him
           unto
           them
           ,
           and
           not
           as
           by
           the
           recommendation
           of
           Man
           ,
           as
           clouded
           and
           encumbred
           with
           their
           interpretations
           and
           additions
           ,
           and
           so
           are
           meer
           Christians
           ,
           and
           yet
           true
           and
           faithful
           Ones
           too
           ;
           yea
           ,
           the
           most
           True
           and
           Faithful
           .
        
         
           Now
           ,
           which
           of
           the
           several
           sorts
           of
           Christians
           ,
           are
           to
           
           be
           accounted
           Sects
           ,
           and
           which
           not
           ,
           is
           a
           great
           Question
           ,
           and
           would
           take
           a
           larger
           Discourse
           ,
           than
           is
           proper
           to
           be
           incerted
           in
           this
           Place
           ,
           truly
           to
           enquire
           into
           it
           ;
           and
           therefore
           ,
           it
           shall
           suffice
           me
           at
           this
           time
           ,
           to
           have
           Asserted
           this
           in
           General
           ,
           which
           ,
           I
           judge
           ,
           will
           be
           generally
           accorded
           to
           by
           All
           ,
           and
           leave
           the
           Application
           to
           each
           understanding
           Reader
           ;
           for
           the
           clearing
           which
           ,
           there
           may
           several
           weighty
           Observations
           fall
           in
           hereafter
           :
           Probably
           ,
           this
           will
           be
           almost
           granted
           by
           All
           ;
           and
           I
           am
           sure
           ,
           may
           be
           truly
           affirmed
           ,
           that
           whatsoever
           people
           hold
           forth
           ,
           and
           preach
           Doctrines
           ,
           which
           in
           the
           Nature
           of
           them
           contradict
           ,
           and
           are
           inconsistent
           with
           true
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           ;
           Such
           may
           truly
           be
           termed
           a
           Sect
           ,
           which
           may
           be
           easily
           applyed
           to
           those
           heretofore-mentioned
           ;
           and
           so
           ,
           consequently
           ,
           who
           ever
           hold
           forth
           Principles
           and
           Doctrines
           consistent
           and
           agreeable
           thereunto
           ,
           are
           ,
           and
           may
           truly
           be
           esteemed
           meer
           Christians
           ,
           and
           no
           Sect.
           Next
           ,
           the
           Nature
           of
           a
           People's
           Society
           ,
           and
           the
           Causes
           drawing
           them
           together
           ,
           with
           the
           Method
           of
           their
           being
           gathered
           ,
           does
           much
           contribute
           to
           evidence
           ,
           whether
           they
           are
           to
           be
           esteemed
           a
           Sect
           or
           not
           ;
           first
           ,
           whose
           Fellowship
           stands
           meerly
           in
           Judgment
           ,
           and
           in
           that
           which
           reacheth
           the
           Understanding
           ,
           and
           so
           are
           joyned
           together
           in
           and
           for
           one
           Opinion
           ;
           are
           only
           to
           be
           esteemed
           a
           Sect
           ,
           however
           true
           their
           Notions
           may
           be
           supposed
           to
           be
           ,
           for
           the
           true
           Principles
           and
           Doctrines
           of
           Christ.
           Albeit
           ,
           they
           do
           truly
           reach
           the
           Understanding
           ,
           and
           require
           its
           Assent
           ,
           yet
           they
           are
           of
           an
           opperative
           Nature
           ;
           however
           ,
           they
           may
           be
           held
           by
           one
           or
           two
           Members
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           without
           working
           upon
           their
           Hearts
           ;
           yet
           cannot
           be
           held
           ,
           nor
           never
           was
           by
           any
           entire
           Society
           ,
           without
           purifying
           their
           Souls
           ,
           and
           reaching
           to
           ,
           and
           working
           upon
           their
           Hearts
           ,
           to
           a
           true
           and
           real
           Conversion
           :
           I
           mean
           ,
           upon
           the
           greatest
           ,
           and
           most
           considerable
           part
           ,
           (
           but
           false
           Doctrines
           may
           be
           firmly
           believed
           by
           a
           whole
           Society
           ,
           without
           having
           any
           Operation
           )
           :
           for
           the
           gathering
           of
           the
           Apostles
           and
           Primitive
           Christians
           ,
           was
           an
           uniting
           of
           Hearts
           ,
           
           and
           not
           of
           Heads
           only
           :
           Those
           three
           Thousand
           Converts
           were
           pricked
           in
           their
           Hearts
           ,
           and
           not
           in
           their
           Heads
           only
           ;
           yea
           ,
           where
           there
           may
           be
           a
           Dissent
           in
           some
           things
           in
           point
           of
           Judgment
           ,
           if
           there
           be
           this
           Unity
           of
           Heart
           through
           the
           prevailing
           of
           the
           same
           Life
           of
           Righteousness
           ;
           yet
           the
           true
           Fellowship
           is
           not
           broken
           ,
           as
           appeared
           in
           the
           Example
           of
           the
           Apostles
           themselves
           .
           Now
           ,
           these
           People
           who
           hold
           forth
           the
           Principles
           and
           Doctrines
           ,
           here-after
           to
           be
           mentioned
           ,
           were
           not
           gathered
           together
           by
           an
           Unity
           of
           Opinion
           ,
           or
           by
           a
           tedious
           and
           particular
           Disquisition
           of
           Notions
           and
           Opinions
           ,
           requiring
           an
           Assent
           to
           them
           ,
           and
           binding
           themselves
           by
           Leagues
           and
           Covenants
           thereto
           ;
           but
           the
           manner
           of
           their
           gathering
           was
           by
           a
           secret
           Want
           ,
           which
           many
           truly
           tender
           ,
           and
           serious
           Souls
           ,
           in
           divers
           and
           sundry
           Sects
           ,
           found
           in
           themselves
           ;
           which
           put
           each
           Sect
           upon
           the
           search
           of
           something
           beyond
           all
           Opinion
           ,
           which
           might
           satisfie
           their
           weary
           Souls
           ,
           even
           the
           Revelation
           of
           God's
           righteous
           Judgment
           in
           their
           Heart
           ,
           to
           burn
           up
           the
           unrighteous
           Root
           ,
           and
           Fruits
           thereof
           ;
           that
           the
           same
           being
           destroyed
           ,
           and
           done
           away
           ,
           the
           inward
           Peace
           and
           Joy
           of
           the
           Holy
           Spirit
           in
           the
           Soul
           ,
           might
           be
           felt
           to
           abound
           ,
           and
           thence
           Power
           and
           Life
           to
           follow
           him
           in
           all
           his
           Commandments
           ;
           and
           so
           ,
           many
           came
           to
           be
           joyned
           and
           united
           together
           ,
           in
           Heart
           and
           Spirit
           ,
           in
           this
           one
           Life
           of
           Righteousness
           ,
           who
           had
           long
           been
           wandring
           in
           the
           several
           Sects
           ,
           and
           by
           the
           inward
           Unity
           ,
           came
           to
           be
           gathered
           in
           one
           Body
           ;
           from
           whence
           ,
           by
           degrees
           they
           came
           to
           find
           themselves
           agreed
           in
           the
           plain
           and
           simple
           Doctrines
           of
           Christ
           ;
           *
           and
           as
           this
           inward
           Power
           they
           longed
           for
           ,
           and
           felt
           to
           give
           them
           victory
           over
           Sin
           ;
           and
           bring
           the
           Peace
           that
           follows
           
           thereon
           ,
           was
           that
           whereby
           they
           were
           brought
           unto
           that
           Unity
           and
           Community
           together
           ;
           so
           they
           came
           first
           thence
           to
           accord
           in
           the
           Universal
           Preaching
           of
           this
           power
           to
           all
           ,
           and
           directing
           all
           unto
           it
           ,
           which
           is
           their
           first
           and
           chiefest
           principle
           ,
           and
           most
           agreeable
           to
           this
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           ,
           as
           I
           shall
           hereafter
           shew
           .
           And
           it
           is
           very
           observable
           ,
           that
           as
           those
           whose
           gathering
           and
           fellowship
           arises
           from
           this
           meer
           unity
           of
           Notions
           and
           Opinions
           ,
           do
           usually
           derive
           their
           name
           and
           designation
           from
           the
           first
           Authors
           ,
           Inventers
           ,
           and
           Fomenters
           of
           those
           Opinions
           ,
           as
           of
           old
           ,
           the
           
             Arians
             ,
             Nestorians
             ,
             Manicheans
          
           ,
           &c.
           And
           of
           late
           the
           
             Lutherans
             ,
             Calvinists
             ,
             Arminians
             ,
             Socinians
             ,
             Monites
             ,
          
           &c.
           
           So
           those
           people
           ,
           whose
           unity
           and
           fellowship
           did
           arise
           from
           their
           mutual
           sense
           of
           this
           Power
           working
           in
           and
           upon
           their
           souls
           ,
           so
           that
           Society
           derives
           not
           their
           name
           from
           any
           particular
           Man
           ,
           and
           therefore
           are
           providentially
           delivered
           from
           that
           great
           mark
           of
           a
           Sect
           ;
           but
           as
           the
           Ungodly
           will
           be
           always
           throwing
           some
           name
           of
           Reproach
           upon
           the
           Children
           and
           Servants
           of
           God
           ;
           it
           being
           observed
           ,
           that
           through
           the
           deep
           and
           inward
           operation
           of
           this
           power
           in
           them
           ,
           a
           dread
           took
           hold
           on
           them
           ,
           not
           only
           to
           the
           begetting
           of
           God's
           fear
           in
           their
           hearts
           ,
           but
           even
           to
           the
           reaching
           and
           instructing
           of
           their
           outward
           Man
           :
           hence
           the
           name
           of
           
             Quakers
             or
             Tremblers
             hath
             been
             cast
             upon
             them
             ,
          
           which
           serveth
           to
           distinguish
           them
           from
           others
           ,
           
             though
             not
             assumed
             by
             them
          
           ;
           yet
           as
           the
           Christians
           of
           old
           ,
           albeit
           the
           name
           of
           Christian
           was
           cast
           upon
           them
           by
           way
           of
           Reproach
           ,
           gloryed
           in
           it
           ,
           as
           desiring
           above
           all
           things
           ,
           to
           be
           accounted
           the
           Followers
           of
           Christ
           ;
           so
           they
           also
           are
           glad
           that
           the
           World
           reproacheth
           them
           as
           such
           who
           tremble
           before
           the
           Lord
           ,
           and
           who
           work
           out
           their
           Salvation
           in
           fear
           and
           trembling
           .
           And
           truly
           the
           Lord
           seems
           by
           his
           Prophets
           of
           old
           ,
           to
           have
           fore-told
           that
           his
           Children
           should
           be
           so
           reproached
           ;
           as
           
             Isa.
             66.
             5.
             
             Hear
             the
             Word
             of
             the
             Lord
             ,
             ye
             that
          
           Tremble
           
             at
             his
             Word
             ;
             your
             Brethren
             that
             hated
             you
             ,
             that
             cast
             you
             out
             for
             my
             Name
             sake
             ,
             said
             ,
             Let
             the
             Lord
             be
             glorified
             ,
             and
             He
             shall
             appear
             to
             your
             joy
             ,
             
             and
             they
             shall
             be
             ashamed
             .
          
           Where
           a
           joyful
           appearance
           of
           God
           is
           promised
           to
           these
           Hated
           and
           Reproached
           
             Tremblers
             or
             Quakars
          
           ,
           and
           Jer.
           33.
           9.
           does
           more
           clearly
           Prophesie
           how
           this
           Reproachful
           Name
           ,
           when
           cast
           upon
           his
           Children
           ,
           shall
           be
           owned
           and
           countenanced
           by
           the
           Lord
           in
           these
           very
           plain
           and
           comfortable
           words
           :
           And
           it
           shall
           become
           a
           Name
           of
           joy
           and
           praise
           ,
           and
           an
           honour
           before
           all
           the
           Nattons
           of
           the
           Earth
           ,
           which
           shall
           hear
           all
           the
           good
           that
           I
           do
           unto
           them
           ,
           and
           they
           shall
           fear
           and
           Tremble
           ,
           or
           Duake
           ,
           for
           all
           the
           goodness
           ,
           and
           all
           the
           prosperity
           that
           I
           procure
           unto
           it
           .
        
         
           As
           the
           nature
           of
           a
           Sect
           ariseth
           from
           the
           love
           of
           Self
           ,
           and
           its
           production
           ,
           so
           in
           the
           last
           place
           there
           can
           be
           no
           more
           signal
           or
           certain
           mark
           of
           a
           Sect
           ,
           then
           when
           a
           People
           seek
           to
           advance
           and
           propagate
           their
           way
           in
           the
           strength
           of
           their
           own
           Spirits
           reckoning
           the
           Preaching
           and
           publishing
           thereof
           by
           their
           own
           natural
           or
           acquired
           parts
           ,
           without
           the
           necessity
           of
           the
           inward
           motion
           of
           the
           Holy
           Spirit
           ,
           both
           lawful
           and
           commendable
           ;
           and
           not
           only
           so
           ,
           but
           the
           advancing
           and
           establishing
           of
           the
           same
           by
           outward
           force
           and
           violence
           :
           For
           ,
           here
           is
           Man
           working
           without
           God
           ,
           or
           the
           guidance
           of
           his
           Spirit
           ,
           in
           his
           own
           meer
           strength
           and
           will
           ,
           to
           set
           up
           his
           own
           Images
           and
           Inventions
           under
           a
           pretence
           of
           Truths
           and
           pure
           Christianity
           ;
           but
           those
           that
           dare
           not
           seek
           to
           advance
           even
           that
           ,
           which
           they
           are
           perswaded
           is
           Truth
           ,
           in
           their
           own
           will
           and
           spirit
           ,
           far
           less
           by
           outward
           force
           and
           violence
           ,
           but
           in
           and
           by
           God's
           Spirit
           ,
           as
           he
           leads
           and
           moves
           to
           it
           by
           his
           Life
           and
           Power
           ;
           shew
           that
           such
           are
           not
           a
           Sect
           nor
           Followers
           of
           Man's
           inventions
           ,
           but
           of
           Christ
           alone
           ,
           waiting
           to
           follow
           Him
           as
           He
           acts
           and
           moves
           them
           by
           his
           own
           Spirit
           and
           Power
           ,
           and
           therefore
           are
           no
           Sectarians
           ,
           but
           meer
           Christians
           .
        
         
           The
           chief
           and
           first
           Principle
           then
           held
           by
           those
           Christians
           ,
           which
           as
           I
           observed
           before
           ,
           naturally
           ariseth
           ,
           and
           was
           assented
           to
           by
           them
           from
           their
           inward
           sense
           that
           tyed
           them
           together
           ,
           is
           ,
           that
           there
           is
           somewhat
           of
           God
           ,
           some
           Light
           ,
           some
           Grace
           ,
           some
           Power
           ,
           some
           measure
           of
           the
           Spirit
           ,
           
           some
           Divine
           ,
           Spiritual
           ,
           Heavenly
           ,
           substantial
           Life
           and
           Vertue
           in
           all
           Men
           ,
           which
           is
           a
           faithful
           Witness
           against
           all
           Unrighteousness
           and
           Ungodliness
           in
           the
           heart
           of
           Man
           ,
           and
           leads
           ,
           draws
           ,
           moves
           ,
           and
           inclines
           the
           mind
           of
           Man
           to
           Righteousness
           ,
           and
           seeks
           to
           leaven
           him
           as
           he
           gives
           way
           thereunto
           ,
           into
           the
           nature
           of
           it self
           ,
           whereby
           an
           inward
           ,
           thorow
           ,
           and
           real
           Redemption
           may
           be
           wrought
           in
           the
           hearts
           of
           all
           Men
           ,
           of
           whatsoever
           Nation
           ,
           Country
           ,
           or
           Kindred
           they
           be
           ,
           notwithstanding
           whatsoever
           outward
           knowledge
           or
           benefit
           they
           be
           by
           the
           Providence
           of
           God
           necessarily
           deprived
           of
           .
           Because
           whatsoever
           they
           want
           of
           that
           ,
           yet
           such
           a
           measure
           of
           this
           Light
           ,
           Seed
           ,
           Life
           ,
           and
           Word
           is
           communicated
           to
           all
           ,
           as
           is
           sufficient
           truly
           to
           convert
           them
           from
           the
           evil
           of
           their
           ways
           ,
           purifie
           ,
           and
           cleanse
           them
           ,
           and
           consequently
           bring
           them
           to
           Salvation
           .
           And
           in
           the
           affirming
           of
           this
           ,
           they
           do
           not
           at
           all
           exalt
           Self
           or
           Nature
           ,
           as
           do
           the
           Socinians
           in
           that
           they
           freely
           acknowledge
           ,
           that
           Man's
           Nature
           is
           defiled
           and
           corrupted
           ,
           and
           unable
           to
           help
           him
           or
           further
           him
           one
           step
           in
           order
           to
           Salvation
           ;
           judging
           nothing
           more
           needful
           then
           the
           full
           and
           perfect
           denying
           and
           mortification
           of
           Self
           in
           order
           thereunto
           .
           Now
           do
           they
           believe
           this
           Seed
           ,
           Light
           ,
           and
           Grace
           ,
           to
           be
           any
           part
           of
           Man's
           Nature
           ,
           or
           any
           thing
           that
           properly
           and
           essentially
           is
           of
           Man
           ,
           but
           that
           it
           is
           a
           free
           Grace
           and
           gift
           of
           God
           ,
           freely
           given
           to
           all
           Men
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           bring
           them
           out
           of
           the
           fall
           ,
           and
           lead
           them
           to
           Life
           Eternal
           .
           Neither
           do
           they
           suppose
           this
           Seed
           ,
           Word
           ,
           and
           Grace
           ,
           which
           is
           sufficient
           to
           lead
           to
           Salvation
           ,
           to
           be
           given
           to
           Men
           without
           Christ
           ,
           for
           they
           believe
           it
           to
           be
           the
           purchase
           and
           benefit
           of
           Christ's
           death
           ,
           
             who
             tasted
             Death
             for
             every
             Man
             :
          
           So
           that
           they
           confess
           all
           to
           be
           derived
           to
           them
           ,
           in
           and
           by
           Christ
           the
           Mediator
           ,
           to
           whom
           they
           ascribe
           all
           ;
           yea
           ,
           they
           believe
           this
           Light
           ,
           Grace
           ,
           and
           Seed
           ,
           to
           be
           no
           other
           but
           a
           measure
           of
           that
           Life
           and
           Spirit
           that
           was
           in
           Christ
           Jesus
           ;
           which
           being
           in
           Him
           ,
           who
           is
           the
           Head
           ,
           in
           the
           fulness
           of
           it
           ,
           is
           from
           Him
           in
           whom
           it
           
           recideth
           ,
           as
           He
           is
           ascended
           up
           unto
           ,
           and
           glorified
           in
           the
           Heavens
           ,
           extended
           to
           all
           Men
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           redeem
           them
           from
           sin
           ,
           and
           convert
           them
           to
           God.
           
        
         
           Thus
           according
           to
           this
           Principle
           ,
           without
           attributing
           any
           thing
           to
           Self
           ,
           or
           to
           the
           Nature
           of
           Man
           ,
           or
           claiming
           any
           thing
           without
           Christ
           ,
           the
           
             Universal
             Love
             of
             God
          
           to
           all
           Men
           is
           exhibited
           ,
           whereby
           the
           means
           of
           Salvation
           by
           Christ
           ,
           and
           reconciliation
           unto
           God
           is
           so
           asserted
           ,
           that
           no
           Man
           is
           altogether
           excluded
           from
           it
           ,
           but
           each
           so
           reached
           ,
           as
           puts
           him
           in
           a
           capacity
           to
           be
           saved
           .
           Such
           then
           as
           believe
           and
           Preach
           this
           Doctrine
           ,
           must
           of
           necessity
           be
           esteemed
           great
           advancers
           and
           asserters
           of
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           ,
           as
           those
           that
           truly
           establish
           it
           ,
           not
           through
           any
           uncertainty
           or
           doubtfulness
           in
           themselves
           ,
           but
           upon
           their
           own
           firm
           and
           acknowledged
           principle
           ,
           since
           that
           doth
           necessarily
           extend
           their
           Charity
           to
           the
           not
           only
           supposing
           ,
           but
           even
           concluding
           Salvation
           possible
           ,
           not
           only
           to
           the
           several
           sorts
           of
           Christians
           ,
           but
           even
           to
           such
           ,
           who
           by
           the
           disadvantage
           of
           Education
           ,
           and
           the
           remoteness
           of
           their
           Habitation
           ,
           are
           ignorant
           of
           the
           Name
           of
           Christ
           ;
           providing
           that
           this
           Seed
           ,
           Grace
           ,
           Word
           and
           Light
           ,
           which
           is
           in
           them
           all
           ,
           and
           the
           free
           gift
           of
           God
           to
           them
           all
           ,
           receive
           place
           in
           their
           hearts
           ,
           so
           as
           to
           work
           out
           the
           fruits
           and
           nature
           of
           Unrighteousness
           ,
           and
           to
           beget
           them
           unto
           Righteousness
           ,
           Purity
           ,
           and
           Holiness
           ,
           which
           according
           to
           this
           Principle
           is
           believed
           to
           be
           very
           possible
           where
           the
           external
           knowledge
           is
           thus
           unavoidably
           wanting
           ;
           for
           albeit
           ,
           those
           who
           hold
           this
           Principle
           ,
           do
           believe
           that
           the
           outward
           knowledge
           of
           Christ
           ,
           and
           these
           other
           advantages
           which
           from
           the
           use
           of
           the
           Scriptures
           are
           enjoyed
           among
           Christians
           ,
           are
           very
           comfortable
           ,
           and
           conducing
           to
           facilitate
           Salvation
           ;
           yet
           they
           reckon
           them
           not
           absolutely
           needful
           ,
           holding
           them
           only
           to
           be
           integral
           and
           no
           essential
           parts
           of
           Christianity
           ,
           for
           they
           place
           the
           essence
           or
           being
           of
           Christianity
           only
           in
           the
           
           in
           the
           true
           and
           real
           Conversion
           of
           the
           heart
           by
           vertue
           of
           the
           operation
           of
           this
           Light
           ,
           Seed
           ,
           and
           Grace
           there
           ,
           
           even
           as
           the
           essence
           and
           being
           of
           a
           Man
           consists
           in
           the
           unity
           of
           soul
           and
           body
           ,
           which
           is
           enough
           to
           denominate
           one
           a
           Man
           ;
           albeit
           ,
           he
           should
           want
           a
           Leg
           ,
           or
           an
           Arm
           ,
           an
           Eye
           ,
           or
           an
           Ear
           ,
           or
           have
           some
           other
           defect
           ;
           or
           even
           should
           be
           destitute
           of
           some
           of
           the
           faculties
           of
           the
           mind
           ,
           as
           of
           the
           memory
           ,
           &c.
           that
           other
           Men
           have
           ;
           yet
           such
           a
           one
           would
           still
           ,
           and
           that
           truly
           ,
           be
           called
           a
           Man
           ;
           albeit
           ,
           not
           a
           compleat
           and
           entire
           Man
           ;
           yea
           ,
           those
           that
           live
           in
           the
           most
           Barbarous
           and
           Unciviliz'd
           places
           of
           the
           World
           ,
           where
           they
           are
           destitute
           and
           ignorant
           of
           all
           the
           liberal
           Arts
           and
           Sciences
           used
           among
           us
           ,
           and
           of
           all
           these
           conveniences
           which
           so
           much
           conduce
           to
           the
           facilitating
           of
           Humane
           society
           ,
           and
           accomodating
           of
           Man-kind
           in
           their
           living
           together
           ;
           I
           say
           ,
           those
           are
           still
           truly
           accounted
           Men
           ,
           as
           having
           that
           which
           is
           truly
           essential
           or
           constitutive
           of
           a
           Man
           as
           such
           .
           In
           like
           manner
           this
           Principle
           supposeth
           the
           possibility
           of
           Salvation
           ,
           both
           to
           those
           commonly
           called
           Heathens
           ,
           and
           to
           many
           among
           the
           dark
           and
           erroneous
           Sects
           of
           Christianity
           ,
           in
           that
           this
           essential
           part
           of
           Christianity
           is
           extended
           to
           them
           ;
           albeit
           ,
           they
           want
           those
           other
           Integrals
           and
           comfortable
           parts
           which
           may
           ,
           in
           and
           with
           respect
           to
           the
           Spiritual
           Man
           ,
           be
           fitly
           compared
           to
           these
           defects
           that
           those
           Barbarous
           Nations
           want
           ,
           which
           we
           enjoy
           as
           to
           the
           Natural
           Man
           ;
           as
           none
           can
           deny
           but
           this
           Principle
           is
           most
           agreeing
           to
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           :
           So
           the
           practice
           of
           all
           ,
           even
           of
           those
           that
           deny
           it
           ,
           doth
           evidence
           and
           shew
           how
           agreeable
           it
           is
           ,
           as
           well
           to
           the
           
             Love
             of
             God
          
           as
           to
           right
           
           reason
           ;
           where
           ,
           when
           ever
           any
           of
           the
           Sects
           come
           to
           deal
           with
           a
           Heathen
           ,
           or
           any
           such
           ,
           against
           whom
           they
           cannot
           urge
           any
           thing
           from
           Scripture
           or
           Tradition
           ,
           as
           being
           Principles
           not
           acknowledged
           by
           them
           ,
           then
           they
           are
           always
           forced
           to
           recur
           to
           an
           inward
           innate
           light
           in
           the
           soul
           ,
           to
           which
           they
           labour
           to
           make
           manifest
           their
           Principles
           ,
           (
           albeit
           ,
           they
           differ
           about
           the
           nature
           and
           sufficiency
           of
           it
           )
           yet
           they
           are
           forced
           to
           concede
           that
           this
           is
           God's
           Love
           to
           Man-kind
           ,
           and
           that
           in
           this
           the
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           of
           God
           is
           extended
           to
           all
           ;
           so
           that
           to
           every
           one
           ,
           to
           whom
           they
           come
           to
           Preach
           ,
           they
           may
           find
           something
           by
           which
           they
           may
           urge
           or
           commend
           their
           Doctrine
           ,
           of
           which
           I
           shall
           give
           one
           singular
           example
           out
           of
           the
           words
           of
           
             Franciscus
             Xaverius
          
           ,
           a
           Jesuit
           ,
           whom
           that
           Tribe
           ,
           for
           the
           high
           esteem
           they
           have
           of
           him
           ,
           term
           the
           Apostle
           of
           the
           Indies
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           Recorded
           in
           
             Bernhardus
             Varenus
          
           ,
           his
           
             Descriptio
             Regni
             ,
             Japoniae
          
           ,
           p.
           195.
           cap.
           8.
           where
           he
           puts
           down
           the
           words
           of
           
             Francis
             Xaviers
          
           Letter
           ,
           thus
           ,
           
             p.
             247.
             
             The
          
           Amargurians
           ,
           
             before
             they
             received
             Baptisme
             ,
             were
             straitned
             with
             an
             odious
             and
             troublesome
             scruple
             ;
             to
             wit
             ,
             That
             God
             seemed
             not
             unto
             them
             merciful
             and
             benigne
             ;
             who
             had
             condemned
             all
             the
          
           Japonians
           
             before
             our
             coming
             ,
             to
             Eternal
             Punishment
             ,
             especially
             who
             ever
             did
             not
             Worship
             God
             according
             as
             we
             Preached
             ;
             and
             therefore
             they
             said
             that
             He
          
           (
           to
           wit
           ,
           
             God
             )
             had
             wholly
             neglected
             the
             Salvation
             of
             all
             their
             Predecessors
             ,
             in
             permitting
             that
             these
             miserable
             souls
             should
             altogether
             be
             destitute
             ,
             to
             their
             utter
             ruin
             ,
             of
             the
             knowledge
             of
             saving
             Truth
             :
             This
             ,
             most
             odious
             thought
             ,
             did
             much
             draw
             them
             back
             from
             the
             Worship
             of
             the
             true
             God
             ;
             but
             by
             the
             help
             of
             God
             ,
             this
             error
             and
             scruple
             was
             taken
             from
             them
             ;
             for
             we
             first
             did
             demonstrate
             unto
             them
             ,
             that
             the
             Divine
             Law
             was
             the
             oldest
             of
             all
             ;
             yea
             ,
             before
             any
             Law
             was
             made
             by
             the
             Antients
             ,
             the
          
           Japans
           
             knew
             by
             the
             teaching
             of
             Nature
             ,
             that
             it
             was
             unlawful
             to
             Kill
             ,
             Steal
             ,
             Forswear
             ,
             and
             other
             things
             contained
             in
             the
             ten
             Divine
             Laws
             ,
             as
             was
             evident
             in
             that
             ,
             when
             any
             of
             them
             committed
             these
             Crimes
             ,
             they
             were
             tormented
             by
             the
             Pricks
             of
             their
             Consciences
             ,
             that
             hence
             
             Reason
             it self
             doth
             teach
             to
             flee
             the
             Evil
             ,
             and
             follow
             the
             Good
             ,
             and
             therefore
             was
             implanted
             in
             the
             minds
             of
             all
             Men
             by
             Nature
             ,
             so
             that
             all
             have
             the
             knowledge
             of
             the
             Divine
             Law
             from
             Nature
             ,
             and
             of
             God
             the
             Author
             of
             Nature
             ,
             before
             Discipline
             be
             added
             ,
             of
             which
             ,
             were
             it
             doubted
             ,
             tryal
             might
             be
             made
             in
             some
             body
             altogether
             void
             of
             Discipline
             ,
             who
             has
             been
             educated
             in
             some
             Mountain
             or
             Wilderness
             ,
             without
             any
             knowledge
             of
             the
             Laws
             of
             his
             Country
             :
             For
             if
             such
             an
             one
             ,
             thus
             altogether
             ignorant
             and
             unacquainted
             with
             Humane
             Discipline
             ,
             were
             asked
             ,
             Whether
             to
             Kill
             a
             Man
             ,
             to
             Steal
             ,
             and
             these
             other
             things
             which
             the
             Law
             of
             God
             forbids
             ,
             were
             sinful
             or
             not
             ;
             or
             if
             they
             were
             not
             right
             ,
             to
             forbear
             these
             things
             :
             Truly
             ,
             I
             say
             ,
             such
             an
             one
             utterly
             ignorant
             of
             Humane
             Discipline
             ,
             would
             so
             answer
             ,
             that
             it
             would
             easily
             appear
             that
             he
             were
             not
             void
             of
             the
             Law
             of
             God.
             From
             whence
             then
             shall
             we
             judge
             he
             has
             drawn
             his
             Notion
             ?
             unless
             from
             God
             himself
             ,
             the
             Author
             of
             Nature
             :
             If
             then
             this
             be
             manifest
             in
             Barbarous
             Men
             ,
             how
             much
             more
             in
             Men
             civiliz'd
             and
             well
             Educated
             ?
             which
             being
             so
             ,
             it
             necessarily
             follows
             that
             the
             Divine
             Law
             was
             implanted
             in
             Mans
             heart
             ,
             before
             all
             Laws
             made
             by
             Man
             :
             This
             Reason
             was
             so
             manifest
             to
             them
             ,
             that
             they
             were
             fully
             satisfied
             ,
             and
             so
             being
             delivered
             form
             these
             snares
             ,
             did
             easily
             subject
             themselves
             to
             the
             sweet
             Yoak
             of
             Christ.
          
           Thus
           far
           Xaverius
           .
        
         
           Thus
           it
           may
           seem
           ,
           that
           to
           satisfie
           these
           Japonians
           ,
           that
           their
           Fore-fathers
           were
           not
           all
           necessarily
           Damned
           ;
           and
           to
           shew
           that
           the
           Universal
           Love
           of
           God
           reached
           unto
           them
           ,
           to
           put
           them
           in
           a
           capacity
           of
           Salvation
           :
           This
           cunning
           Jesuite
           could
           not
           find
           another
           way
           ,
           then
           by
           asserting
           this
           Principle
           ;
           albeit
           ,
           it
           be
           no
           ways
           Congruous
           to
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ;
           for
           these
           Antient
           Japonians
           could
           not
           be
           esteemed
           Members
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ;
           and
           as
           not
           being
           such
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           Romish
           Principle
           (
           who
           say
           there
           is
           no
           Salvation
           without
           the
           Church
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           without
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           )
           must
           needs
           have
           been
           Damned
           .
        
         
           Secondly
           :
           That
           Notion
           and
           definition
           of
           a
           Church
           which
           naturally
           arises
           from
           this
           Principle
           ,
           and
           is
           accordingly
           believed
           
           by
           the
           Assertors
           of
           it
           ,
           doth
           also
           both
           very
           well
           agree
           to
           ,
           and
           establish
           this
           Doctrine
           of
           Universal
           Love
           ;
           for
           where
           ,
           by
           vertue
           of
           this
           Seed
           and
           Light
           ,
           purchased
           and
           extended
           by
           Christ
           unto
           the
           hearts
           of
           all
           (
           it
           being
           supposed
           that
           Men
           may
           be
           truly
           Converted
           ,
           and
           consequentially
           united
           to
           Christ
           )
           it
           naturally
           follows
           that
           such
           become
           Members
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           else
           none
           of
           Old
           ,
           but
           the
           Families
           of
           the
           Patriarchs
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           Jews
           could
           have
           been
           judged
           to
           be
           saved
           ;
           nor
           yet
           any
           ,
           during
           all
           the
           time
           of
           the
           Apostacy
           ,
           which
           as
           it
           is
           false
           in
           it self
           ,
           will
           be
           hardly
           affirmed
           by
           any
           ;
           and
           therefore
           since
           such
           might
           be
           saved
           ,
           they
           must
           be
           esteemed
           Members
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           without
           which
           ,
           in
           this
           large
           sence
           ,
           there
           can
           be
           no
           Salvation
           ,
           as
           including
           the
           whole
           Body
           of
           Christ
           ,
           of
           which
           Body
           ,
           who
           are
           not
           ,
           are
           certainly
           excluded
           ;
           and
           therefore
           it
           is
           that
           the
           Church
           Catholick
           or
           Universal
           is
           not
           so
           confined
           to
           any
           Sect
           ,
           Form
           ,
           or
           external
           Profession
           ,
           as
           that
           those
           that
           are
           not
           initiated
           in
           those
           forms
           ,
           are
           excluded
           absolutely
           from
           being
           Members
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           unless
           it
           be
           upon
           refusal
           or
           resistance
           of
           the
           will
           of
           God
           really
           manifest
           to
           them
           ,
           as
           drawing
           them
           to
           the
           practice
           of
           particular
           things
           ;
           for
           it
           hath
           pleased
           God
           at
           several
           times
           ,
           to
           require
           several
           things
           ,
           both
           of
           particular
           Churches
           and
           Persons
           ,
           which
           he
           has
           not
           of
           others
           :
           As
           to
           the
           Jewish
           Converts
           ,
           to
           abstain
           from
           things
           Strangled
           and
           Blood
           ;
           and
           to
           the
           Churches
           of
           the
           Gentiles
           not
           to
           Circumcise
           ,
           which
           was
           permitted
           to
           the
           Christian-Jews
           for
           a
           time
           ;
           and
           from
           particular
           Persons
           many
           particular
           things
           have
           been
           required
           ,
           which
           albeit
           ,
           they
           were
           not
           general
           Obligations
           upon
           all
           Christians
           ,
           yet
           in
           so
           far
           as
           manifested
           to
           ,
           and
           required
           of
           them
           ,
           were
           sufficiently
           obligatory
           ;
           and
           their
           disobedience
           to
           them
           should
           have
           been
           in
           them
           a
           breach
           of
           their
           general
           obligation
           of
           Obedience
           which
           we
           owe
           to
           God
           ,
           in
           all
           things
           He
           requires
           ,
           and
           consequently
           pernicious
           ,
           how-ever
           others
           ,
           to
           whom
           they
           have
           never
           been
           revealed
           ,
           nor
           required
           ,
           might
           have
           been
           saved
           without
           them
           .
        
         
         
           Thirdly
           :
           As
           the
           asserting
           of
           Principles
           ,
           which
           commend
           the
           Love
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           shew
           the
           great
           extent
           of
           it
           to
           Mankind
           ,
           do
           most
           agree
           with
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           ,
           so
           this
           People
           in
           another
           chief
           Principle
           of
           theirs
           do
           greatly
           shew
           it
           ;
           for
           as
           by
           the
           Preaching
           of
           this
           
             Universal
             Principle
             of
             the
             Light
          
           ,
           they
           shew
           the
           extension
           of
           God's
           Love
           to
           all
           ;
           so
           by
           Preaching
           that
           God
           both
           doth
           ,
           and
           is
           willing
           to
           reveal
           his
           Will
           immediately
           by
           his
           own
           Spirit
           in
           the
           hearts
           of
           all
           those
           that
           receive
           his
           Light
           ,
           that
           so
           they
           may
           be
           guided
           ,
           acted
           ,
           and
           lead
           thereby
           ,
           and
           know
           the
           Mind
           of
           God
           thus
           inwardly
           immediately
           in
           themselves
           ;
           they
           hold
           forth
           the
           intension
           of
           God's
           Love
           to
           all
           those
           that
           follow
           and
           obey
           him
           ;
           so
           that
           they
           neither
           bind
           up
           this
           being
           lead
           by
           the
           Spirit
           of
           God
           only
           to
           themselves
           ,
           nor
           stint
           it
           to
           singular
           and
           extraordinary
           occasions
           ,
           but
           hold
           it
           forth
           as
           a
           common
           and
           Universal
           priviledge
           to
           all
           true
           Christians
           and
           Members
           of
           the
           Church
           .
           Now
           this
           Doctrine
           greatly
           commends
           the
           Love
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           establisheth
           the
           Principle
           of
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           in
           that
           it
           shew
           how
           Universally
           God
           hath
           offered
           this
           blessed
           Priviledge
           to
           all
           ,
           in
           that
           He
           hath
           given
           his
           Light
           unto
           all
           ;
           upon
           the
           receiving
           of
           which
           ,
           this
           immediate
           guidance
           of
           the
           Spirit
           followeth
           as
           a
           necessary
           Concomitant
           ;
           for
           such
           as
           deny
           this
           immediate
           Revelation
           of
           God's
           Will
           by
           his
           Spirit
           in
           the
           hearts
           of
           his
           Children
           ,
           to
           be
           a
           common
           and
           Universal
           Priviledge
           to
           all
           true
           Christians
           and
           Members
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           must
           needs
           suppose
           the
           knowledge
           of
           his
           Will
           necessary
           for
           them
           ,
           to
           be
           communicated
           to
           them
           by
           some
           other
           external
           means
           ,
           as
           by
           outward
           Writings
           and
           Precepts
           ;
           in
           so
           much
           that
           all
           such
           as
           are
           robbed
           of
           this
           Benefit
           ,
           are
           necessarily
           excluded
           from
           partaking
           of
           the
           
             Universal
             Love
             of
             God
          
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           the
           Salvation
           of
           their
           Souls
           .
        
         
           Fourthly
           :
           As
           the
           confining
           of
           the
           Gifts
           and
           Graces
           of
           God
           to
           certain
           external
           formes
           and
           Ceremonies
           ,
           are
           directly
           opposite
           and
           contrary
           to
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           ,
           such
           as
           the
           limiting
           of
           the
           work
           of
           the
           Ministry
           to
           outward
           Ordination
           ,
           
           and
           to
           a
           particular
           Tribe
           of
           Persons
           ,
           the
           making
           humane
           Parts
           and
           Arts
           more
           necessary
           thereto
           than
           the
           Grace
           of
           God
           ;
           so
           that
           the
           Grace
           of
           God
           is
           not
           judged
           sufficient
           to
           make
           a
           Man
           a
           Minister
           ,
           or
           to
           priviledge
           him
           to
           Preach
           without
           those
           other
           Artificial
           and
           Ceremonial
           things
           :
           So
           I
           say
           on
           the
           other
           hand
           ,
           those
           People
           to
           the
           commending
           of
           the
           Universal
           Love
           of
           God
           to
           all
           ,
           but
           especially
           in
           the
           visible
           Church
           ,
           do
           affirm
           ,
           that
           as
           this
           Light
           and
           Grace
           of
           God
           is
           given
           to
           all
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           save
           them
           ;
           so
           whoever
           find
           himself
           truly
           called
           in
           his
           heart
           thereby
           ,
           and
           fitted
           to
           Minister
           to
           others
           ,
           may
           lawfully
           Preach
           and
           Declare
           to
           Others
           the
           good
           things
           that
           God
           has
           done
           for
           his
           soul
           ,
           and
           direct
           and
           instruct
           them
           ,
           as
           by
           the
           same
           Grace
           he
           is
           enabled
           ,
           how
           they
           may
           come
           to
           the
           experience
           and
           attainment
           of
           the
           same
           things
           ,
           albeit
           ,
           he
           have
           no
           outward
           Ordination
           or
           Call
           from
           Men
           ,
           be
           not
           initiated
           in
           their
           Ceremonies
           and
           Orders
           ,
           nor
           yet
           furnished
           with
           their
           Learning
           and
           School-education
           .
           This
           greatly
           commends
           and
           holds
           forth
           the
           Love
           of
           God
           ,
           because
           it
           does
           not
           confine
           the
           Ministry
           unto
           such
           a
           narrow
           compass
           ,
           as
           by
           the
           several
           Sects
           it
           is
           done
           ;
           but
           supposeth
           ,
           that
           among
           those
           that
           had
           not
           the
           Scriptures
           ,
           and
           outward
           knowledge
           ,
           there
           might
           have
           been
           Ministers
           or
           Preachers
           of
           Righteousness
           ,
           as
           it
           was
           said
           of
           Noah
           ,
           that
           he
           was
           one
           who
           was
           ere
           the
           Scriptures
           were
           writ
           ;
           and
           Job
           was
           another
           ;
           besides
           Socrates
           amongst
           the
           
             Greeks
             ,
             Pythagoras
          
           amongst
           the
           Latines
           ,
           and
           several
           others
           that
           might
           be
           named
           among
           the
           
             Arabians
             ,
             Indians
          
           ,
           and
           Ethiopians
           ;
           and
           this
           Doctrine
           doth
           very
           much
           hold
           forth
           the
           
             Universal
             Love
             of
             God
          
           in
           the
           visible
           Church
           ,
           in
           that
           it
           excludeth
           none
           from
           Ministring
           his
           Gift
           ,
           as
           he
           hath
           it
           ;
           albeit
           ,
           a
           poor
           Trades-man
           ,
           or
           Mechanick
           Men
           ,
           as
           is
           done
           among
           the
           far
           greater
           parts
           of
           the
           Sects
           of
           Christendom
           ,
           by
           the
           presumptuous
           Usurpation
           of
           them
           .
        
         
           Fifthly
           :
           This
           People
           do
           greatly
           commend
           and
           hold
           forth
           the
           Universal
           Love
           of
           God
           to
           all
           ,
           in
           denying
           the
           use
           of
           outward
           carnal
           things
           which
           perish
           in
           the
           using
           ;
           such
           as
           
           Washing
           or
           Sprinkling
           with
           Water
           ,
           or
           eating
           of
           Bread
           and
           Wine
           ,
           to
           be
           the
           Seals
           of
           Gods
           Covenant
           with
           Man
           ,
           or
           to
           be
           the
           means
           or
           Channels
           ,
           by
           which
           Grace
           and
           Spiritual
           refreshment
           is
           Ministred
           to
           the
           soul
           ;
           for
           thereby
           they
           confine
           not
           Gods
           Love
           in
           the
           communicating
           of
           his
           Gifts
           and
           Graces
           to
           the
           application
           ,
           or
           not
           using
           of
           Elementary
           things
           ,
           which
           may
           be
           as
           truly
           as
           to
           the
           matter
           of
           them
           ,
           performed
           by
           the
           most
           wicked
           and
           greatest
           Hypocrite
           of
           the
           World
           ,
           as
           by
           the
           most
           Godly
           and
           sincere
           ,
           as
           do
           the
           greatest
           part
           of
           the
           Sects
           among
           Christians
           ,
           who
           make
           such
           a
           noise
           of
           the
           Sacraments
           and
           Ordinances
           ,
           and
           do
           so
           quarrel
           and
           jangle
           about
           their
           matter
           and
           manner
           of
           performance
           ,
           but
           do
           affirm
           and
           believe
           that
           increase
           of
           Grace
           ,
           and
           refreshment
           in
           and
           by
           the
           Life
           of
           Christ
           ,
           is
           conveyed
           unto
           the
           souls
           of
           all
           those
           that
           are
           Faithful
           ,
           as
           this
           Seed
           receives
           a
           place
           ,
           and
           grows
           up
           in
           their
           hearts
           :
           Without
           these
           outward
           Ceremonies
           ,
           this
           cannot
           be
           performed
           but
           by
           such
           as
           are
           sincere
           and
           Godly
           indeed
           ;
           for
           such
           can
           only
           be
           truly
           Faithful
           ,
           and
           wait
           in
           that
           place
           where
           Grace
           and
           Refreshment
           ,
           Strength
           and
           Power
           ,
           Wisdom
           and
           Courage
           ,
           Patience
           and
           all
           other
           good
           gifts
           are
           received
           .
        
         
           Sixthly
           :
           These
           People
           do
           much
           establish
           Universal
           Love
           in
           that
           they
           affirm
           Persecution
           of
           Men
           ,
           for
           the
           matter
           of
           their
           Consciences
           to
           be
           Unchristian
           and
           Unlawful
           ;
           believing
           that
           as
           God
           can
           only
           inform
           and
           enlighten
           the
           Conscience
           ,
           so
           it
           is
           contrary
           to
           the
           
             Universal
             Love
             of
             God
          
           ,
           for
           Men
           to
           seek
           to
           force
           and
           restrain
           it
           ,
           as
           hath
           hitherto
           been
           sufficiently
           shewn
           .
        
         
           Lastly
           :
           They
           do
           very
           truly
           and
           observably
           establish
           Universal
           Love
           ,
           in
           that
           they
           Preach
           Love
           to
           Enemies
           ,
           and
           the
           necessity
           of
           bearing
           and
           suffering
           Injuries
           without
           Revenge
           ,
           holding
           it
           Unlawful
           for
           Christians
           to
           fight
           or
           use
           carnal
           Weapons
           ,
           even
           to
           resist
           such
           as
           oppose
           them
           ,
           and
           wrongfully
           prejudice
           them
           :
           As
           this
           is
           most
           agreeable
           to
           the
           Doctrine
           and
           Practice
           of
           Christ
           ,
           so
           is
           it
           to
           the
           
             Universal
             
             Love
             of
             God
             ▪
          
           whose
           long-suffering-Patience
           ,
           even
           towards
           the
           Wicked
           ,
           Stiff-necked
           ,
           and
           Rebellious
           ,
           after
           many
           provocations
           ,
           doth
           above
           all
           declare
           his
           Love
           ,
           in
           which
           they
           cannot
           pretend
           to
           be
           Followers
           of
           him
           ,
           who
           believe
           it
           Lawful
           for
           them
           to
           Revenge
           every
           Injury
           ,
           to
           give
           Blow
           for
           Blow
           ,
           and
           Knock
           for
           Knock
           ,
           and
           so
           know
           not
           what
           it
           is
           patiently
           to
           receive
           and
           suffer
           an
           Injury
           ,
           if
           they
           have
           any
           opportunity
           of
           revenging
           themselves
           ,
           and
           so
           consequently
           cannot
           have
           
             Universal
             Love
          
           ,
           which
           necessarily
           supposeth
           and
           includes
           Love
           to
           Enemies
           ;
           and
           he
           that
           will
           Beat
           ,
           Kill
           ,
           and
           every
           way
           he
           can
           ,
           destroy
           his
           Enemy
           ,
           does
           but
           foolishly
           contradict
           himself
           ,
           if
           he
           pretend
           to
           Love
           him
           ;
           and
           those
           that
           do
           not
           Preach
           and
           Practice
           Love
           to
           Enemies
           ,
           but
           that
           which
           is
           quite
           contrary
           ,
           cannot
           justly
           pretend
           either
           to
           the
           Doctrine
           or
           Practice
           of
           Universal
           Love.
           Wherefore
           I
           desire
           the
           Reader
           may
           make
           Application
           hereof
           ,
           as
           to
           the
           several
           Sects
           of
           Christians
           ,
           and
           examine
           whose
           Principles
           and
           Practices
           do
           most
           agree
           herewith
           ,
           and
           seriously
           consider
           whether
           there
           be
           any
           intire
           united
           Body
           of
           Christians
           ,
           except
           these
           here
           mentioned
           ,
           who
           do
           unanimously
           hold
           forth
           so
           many
           Doctrines
           ,
           so
           directly
           establishing
           and
           agreeing
           to
           
             true
             Universal
             Love.
          
           
        
         
           
             Writ
             in
             Aberdeen
             Prison
             
               the
               first
               Month
               ,
               1677.
               
            
          
        
         
           THE
           END
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A30906-e3950
           
             *
             Which
             external
             Agreement
             ,
             as
             well
             in
             Doctrines
             ,
             as
             in
             the
             Practices
             necessarily
             following
             thereupon
             ,
             became
             as
             one
             External
             bond
             &
             tye
             of
             their
             outward
             and
             visible
             Fellowship
             obvious
             to
             the
             VVorld
             ,
             whereby
             they
             are
             distinguished
             even
             to
             the
             observation
             of
             Man
             from
             the
             several
             Sects
             professing
             the
             Name
             of
             Christ
             ,
             as
             the
             true
             Christians
             of
             old
             were
             by
             their
             Adherence
             to
             the
             Orthodox
             Principles
             from
             other
             Hereticks
             ,
             that
             laid
             claim
             likewise
             to
             be
             Christians
             .
          
           
             Let
             not
             the
             Reader
             think
             strange
             that
             I
             assert
             this
             Principle
             ,
             and
             enter
             not
             upon
             the
             probation
             of
             it
             (
             having
             done
             that
             largely
             else-where
             ,
             as
             in
             my
             Apology
             )
             it
             not
             being
             my
             business
             here
             so
             to
             do
             ,
             but
             only
             to
             shew
             how
             such
             and
             su●h
             Principles
             do
             not
             agree
             with
             
               Universal
               Love
            
             ,
             as
             on
             the
             other
             hand
             ,
             when
             I
             make
             mention
             of
             other
             Principles
             ,
             I
             do
             not
             offer
             to
             refute
             them
             ,
             it
             being
             enough
             here
             to
             demonstrate
             that
             ▪
             they
             are
             contrary
             to
             
               Universal
               Love.