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feedeth it ? For my own part, since I came to 

 any knowledge at all, or experience of the church 

 diiferences, I have ever professed, and must still 

 do, that, if I saw ground enough to make me a 

 Smectymnion, I know not what could stay me, 

 but 1 must on to Brownism, or Independency, or 

 God knows what other unborn fancy, if not rather 

 to absolute Anabaptism, or something beyond it, 

 unless I would renounce my own reason, and sin 

 against my conscience. 



Truly, when I have well considered of them, I 

 find no security at all, either in Popish or Puri- 

 tanical principles. Yet, of the two. Popery hath 

 this advantage, that it keeps the proselyte (though 

 with insufferable tyranny, yet) confined within 

 some limits and bounds, like water shut up within 

 the banks of a muddy unsavory lake : whereas 

 this wild thing, for want of a more proper name 

 commonly called Puritanism, like a sea-breach, 

 runs itself into a thousand channels, and knows 

 not where to stop. When we have wrangled our- 

 selves as long as our wits and strengths will serve 

 us, the honest, downright sober English Protestant 

 will be found, in the end, the man in the safest 

 way, and by the surest line : who, 



1. Maketh the written word of God the sole 

 and perfect rule of all matters properly of faith, 

 and of all the essentials of God's worship, and of 

 Church government. 



2. As for all matters of ceremony and order, 

 and other accidental forms and circumstances be- 



