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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97102	A parable, or consultation of physitians vpon Master Edwards. Love. Justice. Patience. Truth. [brace] Doctors. [brace] Conscience. Hope. Piety. Superstition. Policie. [brace] Observers.	Walwyn, William, 1600-1681.	1646 (1646)	Wing W686; Thomason E359_8; ESTC R201169	14,728	20

your conversations Why the love of God which bringeth salvation to all men hath appeared teaching us to deny all ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and to live righteously godly and soberly in this present world Are yee publique persons Are yee intrusted to judge righteously in all causes Love is the best property even in a judge for God is Love who is the righteous judge of all the earth and slayeth not the righteous with the wicked Love rightly so called putteth no difference betweene high and low rich and poore but loveth all men as they are men alike but the proper object of Love is vertue the more vertuous the more it loveth the lesse vertuous the lesse it loveth what so ever justly deserveth the name of infirmity Love can beare with all but it is contrary to its nature to beare with wickednesse because mercy to the wicked tends to the ruine of the just and so becomes the greatest cruelty Love is just as God is spares not the greatest for his greatnesse nor the wealthy for his money nor any for any by respect so that hold but up your love to God and you can never be partiall in judgement Love doth as it would be done unto in which respect it is a motive to the compleat performance of trust for would it not grieve you to have your love abused in the trust you have given for your good doubtlesse it would Why then sayes Love grieve not those that have loved and trusted you but be watchfull for their safety tender of their freedomes and then you shall certainly reape the fruite of love whihc is an aboundance of love and reall thankfulnesse Are you in dispute what you shall doe in matters of Religion take Love along with you to light you through this laboriath whence never any Authority returned without prejudice Say now is Religion of that nature that you can referre it to him whom you must love to set you ●'es in such sort as you can assure your selfe you shall without sinne obay these rulee Nay when your friend hath done all he can doe are you not to follow your own underst ending of the word of God not his and if you doe not so doe you not sin if so how can any trust Religion And if none can must none can be trusted And love will never meddle with matters not intrusted by way of injunction but only by perswasion whilst we live here knowledge will be imperfect and whilest it is so that which seemeth truth to one seemeth an errour to another If I now shall be so anadvised as to call him an heretique who differs from me I doe but provoke him to call me so for he is as confident of his as I am of my judgement and here the rule of Love is broken that ought not to love in reference to opioion but according to vertue and godlynesse of conversation for this were away otherwise to bring all into confusion there being so many severall opinions if one should revile and reproach another with the names of Heredques and schismatiques Anabaptist Brownist Antinomian Seeker Sectarie Presbyter this tends to nothing but to devide the honest party and to make way for your common enemy for in whatsoever the true and evident rule of Love is broken it tends to dissolution it being love that preserveth all things Therefore my humble advice is in this great cause upon which more dependeth then is presently seen that you give not countenance to one before another for that begets a high conceite in those you favour and makes them dispise all others though they may be as nigh the truth as those in the one you be get pride in the other feare the fruit of both being the worst that can come to any people none are now infallible truth and errour are two easily mistaken but love is easily understood to doe as you would be done unto is a rule generally agreed on Let those that conceive they can justly submit their consciences to others arbitration in the worship of God give in their names for themselves and the places they represent I beleeve upon a little consideration few would be found t is not what formerly hath been done but what may justly be done that is to beare sway with all true reformers No man hath been more earnest then I for compelling all to uniformity and for punishment of all contrary practisers but I now see my errour and will do all I can to make amends for the evill I have done the books I have written I will burne with my owne hand for I judge no opinion so evill as molestation for Religion What I have in hand shall never see the light because I now see it to be a work of darknesse and I exceedingly rejoyce that I have this oppertunity to declare thus much before you if ever men shall kindly be brought to be of one mind I see it must be by liberty of discourse and liberty of writing we must not pretend to more infallible certenly then other men this distinction of Clergy and layety how I loath it I le no longer abuse the world therewith nor with any thing appertaining there unto I will henceforth magnifie nothing but love I am the devoted servant of Love and his lovely companions Iustice Putience truth Piety and Conscience shall be my fortresse to defend me from the wiles and force of Machiavilian Pollicy O Love I how thou hast melted me how thou hast refined me and made me all new perfect thy worke O! Love that I may become all love and nothing but love Piety Here is a happy change indeed certainly the cure is absolute we have great comfort of our poore indeavours how his discourse fell at last from the publique to his particular content my advice is that wee all silently depart and let all things be removed as if no man had been here as for you Conscience I know you will not leave him and when he wakes your presence doubtlesse will be most acceptable FINIS