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in blood ; the stars and luminaries of the church, 

 to shed such black and malignant influences ; in 

 lieu of pious documents to hear none but furious 

 incentives ; 



No matter for the church, or laws. 

 You may confide in such a cause.* 



f The cause they serve is the doctrine, and 

 the use, the egg, the apple, the head and foot 

 of all their discourses ; if you like to confer 

 notes, you may find a piece of their sermon in 

 Barclay, to this eifect ; * They extol Evangelical 

 liberty, that no Christian minds should be yoked 

 with Christ's government, that all should enjoy 

 free consciences ; that the Gospel is soft and 

 mild, nor does it seek to reduce any by violence : 

 they beg the same enlargement and scope for 

 themselves, which they gladly allow to others. 'J 



* Ite alacres, tantseque, precor, confidite causae. 



t Paphius. 



X Se Evangehi Hbertatem praedlcare, nullam Christianis 

 animis vmi inferre_,suam cuique conscientiam Kberam relinquere, 

 verbo ducere^ non \d quemquam adigere ; earn esse Evangehi 

 doctrinam, ut omnes conscientiae fruantur Ubertate : sibique ut 

 id liceat^ votis omnibus postidare. — Con. Monarch, p. 32. 



