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uiiaistry but that of the Spirit in tfs , oirly to oursel ^ e ^ indi ^ ualiy , thotfgh we proved particularly the contrary , and that never takes notice of it , but persevered with dreaming repetitions : he that made me to say I cared ^ not a 1
farthingfor Chrises church , that only saicl it of a per $$ qjitwg 9 mercenary , adulterated , qivprced church : he that represent ^ i&e -to cry down Christ's ministry ^ that' only dented a
persecuting , bloody-minded clergy , full of temporizing and flattery : he that made me accuse Marshall , Ward , Burgess , Edwards , &c , of fawning upon O . Cromwell , that only mentioned them as some of those that cried
• ddwn with Baal ' s priests / &c ., on the one side , and that most bitterly withstood the Independents , &c ., as schismatics , on the other ; calling upon the civil magistrate to sweep the land of them , on purpose to give proof of
some Presbyterian charity : he that charges schism upon us , and is b y his separate meeting , and flying for curing sb a detected Separatist himself : he that cries us and we , taking in Protestants of all sorts , arid Papists too , under some Christian qualification ,
but leaving us out ^ that hath abetted the beginning of those troubles that are charged with sedition and schism : he that had the confidence to say he and his friends had no hand in separation or persecution , nor daubing of the powers ; who writ an 'Holy 9
Commonwealth to an usurper to practise , and raise his new monarchy upon , and that hath , preached up the use of civil power to restrain consciences , and countenanced severity upon Thomas Gootiier , so as he had been killed , tout for l # t . Salsberry - y
and whose brethren said , at Manchester ^ * let us Wow up this Quaker / at G . Boothe ' s rising , and cried , 'Banish them , and for tUe children do as the Irish did : * nits will be lice , my witnesses are near : he that cries up the ministry of 1655 * for the best in the world , and when put e | ose to it , runs off
and quits the field , and of above 9000 preachers with 1800 t were the 1800 the ministry , and not the 9000 ? . And did none of those call Oliver , ' Moses / * the light of their eyes and breath of their tAOf&rils , * and Richards * the Joshua that wafe to le ^ td thein tp the Holy L , an «' ^ Did nonerdf theie letter the pdivere , persecute Dfcsentfeys , and
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force j ^ eirmaiirtenwice ? Hetthat calls this taking a malicious advanta of the times , wheii ^ God kno ^ vs , I \ vaa grieved to mention it , but driven to it by such extravagant praises of them as being of the best , which 1 think , in a sense , is corrupteat ; and to shew it must / tell their story : he that calls the law , which forces maintenance
from people to a ministry they own not , one of thosje law& of the lan < J , that is the rule of property , and yet denies the law that distrains religious meetings as against property : \ he that makes us deny any Christianity at all to be in any but ourselves , that infers from our words , that all else are antichristian but ourselves , &c ,,
because we acknowledge this wiiy to be more excellent , as that which has given life to our souls , and in which we have found the redeeming power of Christ in our souls ; which we
never felt under other ministry and in other ways : he that , from our declining the fashions and customs , of the world in pure conscience to God , the only token of our esteeming burselves Christians , ? and that says we
go out of one extreme into another : he that chargeth us with maintaining Popery , and yet counts the Papists Christians , whilst he denies v& to be such , at least questions it : he that admits not particular instances to conclude . against generals , and himself
drsfwsr reflections from I . Nayler upon the whole people called Quakers , and their faith : he that chargeth m § with believing , and bids me repent of what never was , but what if it were , I told him I utterly detested , and that after
he was told so , yet sums up his discourse in the same terms , without proving his ^ accusation or taking any notice of my abhorrence of any such thing as that he charged : and he that can make a people guilty of such fault as I . N . might « commit , wh $ » they so solemnly , ' . and in . print
renounce and censure it : he that finds fault with aggravating evil against persons , as a way that 'tends to destroy love , arid yet practises it by a dafl and envious repetition ' of Btories thrice over , not at that time ^ to be particularly disproved : he that makis it a
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1823, page 197, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1783/page/5/
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