Some drops of the viall powred out in a season when it is neither night nor day : or, Some discoveries of Jesus Christ his glory in severall books .. . e concerning me, That I intended tomake you my Cenfor for fome Papers which I did notpublifh. Page i. Sir,thofe Papers were an Anfwer to Matter Fullers lafl:¥>ooV;andthe Q^edion about Reformation Betwixt himand me, Being fo out of all Mafter Herle oBfervetb,andhe m Iheard, Being dead, made me rather put up my Arrows into their QjUVer*then (hoot them at fuch a mark. For my contending with you in this J hope it is But as that of Vd
Some drops of the viall powred out in a season when it is neither night nor day : or, Some discoveries of Jesus Christ his glory in severall books .. . e concerning me, That I intended tomake you my Cenfor for fome Papers which I did notpublifh. Page i. Sir,thofe Papers were an Anfwer to Matter Fullers lafl:¥>ooV;andthe Q^edion about Reformation Betwixt himand me, Being fo out of all Mafter Herle oBfervetb,andhe m Iheard, Being dead, made me rather put up my Arrows into their QjUVer*then (hoot them at fuch a mark. For my contending with you in this J hope it is But as that of VdxAandBarnabas, andVmland Peter, acontentionof Brethren, not of Enemies 5for I thinks you would oppofe Truth no more then my felfe ; but we Both maybe faid to contend rather for the Truth then againfl it, and rather with oneanothers realory £<?« with Truth. In this Controverfie you have much advantage 0/learning, and experi-ence ; But there is a Spirit and the infpiration of the Almighty, which en-lightens the young man and the old; Elihu as well as Job or hts other advantages are,the Magiftrate whom ysn have more on your fide-. Te Majttr ; we only are more on the Magiftrates fide, then they arc on ours; yet we cannot b tit fay, and bleffe the Lord for them,they are fo far on ours, aswe lead a peaceable and quiet life under them. Tour other advantage,is an Aflembly ^learned Divines,^/- not fo wholyyours $ the way of Truth we (land for, hath a Party there; and /hope whenthe vaile of prejudice is taken away> and Truth is brought home to theirfoules in Us nakedneffe, power, and evidence, by a power more ipintuailthen is yet given out from Heaven,*/** Party there will be greater : / wiUlingly prefume fo much of them, J have laboured that a Spirit of love and meekneffe might run throughall my Reply unto you, though in my travelling over your V^txjhave metwith fame things in thtway too lharp. and your way hath more Brkrs andThorns in it then you promtfed
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