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Catholick Unity is confidered, the Diffenters
further cleared from the Charge of Schifm,
the Ordination of their Minifters again
juftified, and the Cafe about Ceremonies
and Separation more fully argued.

By the fame Hand.

Veritas Victrix.

If Phaetons drive the Chariot of the Sun, the World
will be foon on Fire: I mean fuch in the Church,
whofe Brains, like the Unicorns, run out into the
length of the Horn: Such who have more Fury than
Zeal, and yet more Zeal than Knowledge or Mode-
ration. Stillingf. Iren. p. 47.

LONDON, Printed for F. Robinson, at the
Golden-Lion in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1702.

43.

238.

A Second Letter to Mr. Robert Burfcough, in Vindication of the Fire, &c.

SIR,

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A Preface to Mr. R. B.

Have read what you call a Vindication of a Dif courfe of Schifm, which was addrefs'd to the Dif fenters, who conform'd before the Toleration, and

have fince withdrawn themselves from the Communion of the Church of England, in Answer to a Letter lately published against it: Wherein you have done much more than enough to fhew the World your Refentment of it; and am forry to find you in a Transport fo unbecoming that Character of Moderation and Learning you would pretend to, and the more because I have been the Occasion of it; but how justly, is what must now be examin'd and confider'd.

At what time your Difcourfe of Schifm began to appear in open light in 1699, I cannot tell, but it was not till February 1700, that it was brought to my hand, when I was earnestly defir'd to make Tome Reply to it, which, when I had read it, I was prevail'd with, to take the few spare hours I had to do. But finding that in it which David complain'd of in another cafe, Pfal. 55. 21. The words of his Mouth were fmoother than butter, but War was in his heart; his words were fofter than Oy!, yet were they drawn Swords. I therefore thought it my

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