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humour, he might not, one way or other find occafions to expofe. And now having left me no more to do on this Section, I fhall follow you to the Next.

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The general Design whereof feems to be but this, viz. To wipe your felf as clean as you can, from the Foulness of those Confequences which I drew from that Guilt of Schifm, wherewith you had charg'd us in the highest degree, and which you loaded with all the Aggravations you could gather from your own Invention, or from any Authors Ancient, or Modern; whereby you cut us off from any Union with Chrift the Head, or with his Catholick Church upon Earth, and confequently from all hope of Salvation, and reprefented us as worfe than Murderers, or Idolaters, (that is, at a greater distance from you than the Papifts) and fuch as could not lawfully claim any Protection from the Government, under which we live, fo that we are plainly outlaw'd by you, as far as you can do it: And was not this enough to juftify the Cofequences that I charg'd you with in my Letter? But a little to mitigate the Rigour of all this, you are now pleas'd to tell us

1. That Schifm is indeed a heinous Sin, as appears both from the Nature of it, and from the Teftimony of Ancient and Latter Authors, of which you mention fome. And indeed I think. fo too, could we but once be agreed on whofe fide the Schifm lies. The Paffions which the Fathers of the Primitive Churches fhew'd against the Schifmatical Separations of fome of their Presbyters, had much more to be faid in their Juftification, than can in our Cafe be pretended to, not only for that their Separations were more Causeless, and grounded on ill Principles and bad Ends, and attended with fome grofs Errours

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in Doctrine, but for that they were not, under the present Circumstances of their Relation to their Ordinary, fui juris, but under the Defpotical Power of their Chief Pastor, or Bishop, as hath been already faid, which is not the cafe now, fince the Paftoral Office is diftributed to the Presbyters in their respective Charges; which being not duly confider'd, hath been the Ground of many of your great Mistakes.

II. You fay, If Schifm be a grievous Sin, it doth not follow that all the Diffenters fuppofing them guilty of it) are grievous Criminals; for in particular Perfons there may be feveral Circumftances that may abate the malignity of it. So that, fuch is your Clemency, you are not for Executing of all without exception; that would look worse than Judge Jefferys, but the Ring-leaders, among whom doubtless you reckon me, with the Reft of my Order, may expect no more pity with you, than the Dogs you compare us to, from Phil. 3. 2.

III. You pretend, You had no more defign to engage Secular Princes against us, or to inflict Temporal Punishments on us, or to fill the Prifons with us, than. St. Paul, or Clemens, or Ignatius, or Irenæus, or Cyprian bad, who imploy'd their Power against the Sectaries of their Times, and therefore you think you should be as excufable as they, who have form'd your Difcourfe upon their Model. But what doth this little Stroaking fignify? Is it not apparent enough what your Defign was, by your Envying us the Liberty that is by Law granted us, and your endeavouring to cut us off from the benefit of that Law, unless you will ftill fay, that all the Penal Laws that were lately in force against us, and with fuch rigour executed upon us, ought not to be call'd Punishments, or faid to have any fuch thing as Sharpness in them, of which enough hath been faid before.

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fion of your Discourse, and the Page 177. Defence you have made of it, where

you tell me, That tho' you bave hitherto paid me a very nice Attendance, yet you can't part with me without fome farther Remarks on my Way of Writing. And here you found five things to make your Learned Remarks npon:

1. A vain Oftentation of Learning where there was no need of it. The truth is, I found nothing in yonr Difcourfe of Schifm, that needed any great Learning to confute it; but wherein my vain Oftentation did appear, I cannot tell. The Scraps of Logick you upbraid me with, I think every one that understands the Rules of a Regular Difputation, will fay, was neceflary to discover the Fallacy of your loofer way of Arguing, and wherein you ought to have fav'd me the labour, and for which, no wife Man that ever was bred in an University, would have defpis'd you. But the true Reason why you are now fo offended with a Syllogifm, is evident enough It feems, as great an Enemy as you are to the Sectaries, you can decry Humane Learning too, when you are gall'd by it. And as for that approv'd Maxim which I had occasion to mention, that Ens and Unum are convertible Terms, if you can't understand it, or the Relation it had to my Argument, I can't help your Understanding, any better than my plain words there might have done it, where I told you, that our being One with you in every thing, wherein the Effence of the Catholick Chriftian Unity doth confift, is fufficient to denominate us to be One with you, tho' we be Divided from you in fome

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of the External and Accidental Circumftantials wherein the Effence of the Unity doth not confift. If this be not intelligible enough to you, I must defpair of being understood by you.

And altogether as unhappy, you fay, I am, in attempting to fhew my Skill in Anatomy. Which indeed was far enough from my Design, only. I occafionally mentioned the Livers preparing the Blood for the Nourishment of its own proper Parenchyma. But you tell me, The Liver bath no fuch Faculty, as I bave affign'd to it. Sir, If you will but bear with. this little piece of Vanity you now provoke me to, I might tell you, That for the space of very nigh thefe Thirty Years paft, wherein I have ftudied, and by Colledge-License practiced Physick, perhaps I have read as mnch in Anatomy, as ever you have done, and know both the Ancient and Modern Anatomists Opinions in this matter, and know too how little the Learned of this Faculty are agreed on that Question. But it being out of my way at prefent, to offer my Reader any part of an Anatomy-Lecture, I fhall only recommend it to you, as a Service that would highly merit the immortal Fame of a Vertuofo, if you would please to communicate to the Learned World, your more curious and certain discovery of what the particular Office of that Bowel is, and how far it is concern'd in the Bufinefs of Sanguification. 2. Another little Pique you have at me is, for my faying, That the Paffover, and the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, were the fame Ordinance; Which, you fay, at first fight appears too abfurd to need any Confutation. How ever it appear'd to you at firft fight, had you not been too hafty, fecond thoughts might have been wifer. Did I not plainly tell you how far they were the fame, viz. of the fame Divine Inftitution, of the fame Signification and Mystery, that is, as

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reprefenting Christ Crucified, and equally Sacred, tho' of different Forms and Circumftantials; and if this had been falfe or abfurd, as you fay, why had you not fhewn where the Fallacy or Abfurdity lies?

3. You accuse me for calling Names, when Argu ments were expected: And the only Name you can charge me for, is that of Tantivy. By whom this Name was first devised, I cannot tell, but you know how commonly That, and the Trimmer, have pafs'd of late by way of distinction between the more Violent, and the more Moderate, of the Church-men; and finding you fuch a One as the Name agreed to, I was, tho' perhaps too unmannerly bold, to falute you with it, and for which I would humbly beg your Pardon, if that would reclaim you from what was the meriting caufe of it. But then when you tell us, That the Defign of the Teft-Act was to be a Fence to keep (you do not fay Papifts, but) Us, Proteftants, out of your Communion. Whatever there be of Truth in this, I think you have faid but little for the Honour of that A&

4. You complain of a great want of Sincerity in my management of the Controversy with you: And particularly, because I did not refer to the Pages of your Book, by Marginal Notes; which indeed I thought not needful, while I followed you as your Shadow, by your Sections and Paragraphs, as I have already told you. Nor could I be fo filly as to think that that would prevent our being compar'd together tho' you are fo weak as to fay fo. Neither did i wilfully vary any Form of your words in the least Tittle of them, nor conceal'd any thing that had any Pretence of Argument in it, which was that I all along most attentively fought for, tho' this be, in feveral Inftances, the unfair dealing you have how us'd with me. But as for the Fairness of my N

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