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arguments ; like that Stoick in Lucirin , that cried c 5 xarafars ! 0 damned villain ! when he could say nothing else . Neither is it credible the wiser sort of them should believe this their own horrid
assertion , that a God of goodness Should damn to eternal torments , those that love him and love truth , for errours which they fall
into through human frailty ! But this they must say , otherwise their only great argument from their damning iis and our not being so peremptory in damning them , because we hope unaffected
ignorance may excuse them , would h& lost ; and therefore they are engaged to act on this tragical part , to fright the simple and ignorant , as we do little children , by telling them that bites , which we would not have them meddle
With , And truly that herein they do but act a part , and know themselves to do so , and deal with us here , as they do with the king of Spain at Rome , whom they accurse and excommunicate for
fashion-sake on Maundy-Thursday , for detaining part of St . Peter ' s patrimony , and absolve faim without satisfaction on Good Friday ; methinks their faltring
and inconstancy herein makes it very apparent : for though for the most part , they speak nothing but thunder and lightning to us , and damn us all without mercy or ex .
cepiibn $ yet sometimes , to serve other purposes , they can be content to speak to us in a milder strain , and tell us , as my
adversary does more than once , That they allow Protestants as much charity y as Protestant ? allow them * Neither is this the only contradiction which I have discovered in this uncharitable work :
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but have shewed that , by forget , ting himself , and retracting most of the principal grounds he builds upon , he hath saved me the labour of a confutation ; which yet I have not in any place found
any such labour or difficulty , but that it was undertakable by a man of very mean , that is , of my abilities . And the reason is , be * cause it is truth I plead for ; which is so strong an argument for iL self , that it needs only light to discover itj whereas it concerns falsehood and errour to use
disguise and shadowings , and all the fetches of art and sophistry ; and therefore it stands in need of abler men to give that a colour at least which hath no real body to subsist by . If my endeavours in this
kind may contribute any thing to this discovery , and the making plain that truth ( which my charity perswades me the most part of them disaffect , only because it hath not been well represented to them ) I have the fruit of nay
labour , and my wish , who desire to live to no other end , than to do service to Gad ' s Church , and your most sacred Majesty , in the quality of your Majesty ' s most faithful subject , and most humble and devoted servant , W . C *
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748 Chillmgworth .
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Wo . XXXL . Luther . And then for Luther ' s opposing your church upon mere passion , it is a thing I will not deny ,
becj • * cause I know not his heart , ana for the same reason you should not have affirmed it . Sure I am , Whether he opposed your church upon reason or no , he had reason enough to oppose it . And therefore , if he did it upon passion , *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 746, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/18/
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