is written thus Qui illicite alium Excom c. He that unlawfully Excommunicates another condemneth himself and not another That our Love must be Catholick HOmily of Christian Love and Charity p. 36. Charity is to love every man good and evil friend and foe and whatsoever Cause be given to the Contrary yet nevertheless to bear good will and heart to every man to use our-selves well unto them as well in Words and countenances as in all other Acts and deeds for so Christ himself taught and so also he performed indeed and for as much as the Pharisees with their false glosses had Corrupted this love of our neighbour teaching that this love and Charity pertained only unto a mans friends Christ gave this Godly law of Charity a true and clear interpretation that we ought to love every man both friend and foe adding thereto the Commodity to be the Children of our heavenly Father and this we shall be sure of saith Christ if we love every man without exception Conformists Plea for Nonconformists Part 4. pag. 106. The salutations of the Holy Apostles expressed their largeness and their Catholick love to the Corinthians among whom were great divisions to the Galatians and Colossians among whom were some very Erroneous so did their Benedictions peace be to Brethren and Love c. And Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus in sincerity Eph. 6.23 and verse 2. Bishop Davenants Letter to Duraeus Whether we will or no it s necessary that we all own Christ as our elder Brother and joyn in strict and Brotherly Communion with all that are his Brethren Moreover all must confesse true and genuine Charity is as necessary to the Salvation of all the Members of the Christan Churches as the true and entire profession of Saving faith Christ having made this love the Cognizance Whereby to discriminate his disciples and those who falsely professe his name he puts this question Whether it be safe Pious or suitable to the duty of Christian Churches not to stretch forth the right hand of Brotherly affection to those Churches which though they differ and in some lesser matters err may notwithstanding be Christs Martyrs and our holy Brethren Mr. Thomas Pierce on St. John the 13.35 Our love must be so extensive that it must reach even to all not only to our fellow-disciples but to all men living upon earth it must reach even to our enemies not onely to those without the pale of the Church who do us little or no hurt even Jews Turks Insidels and Hereticks for whom we pray once in a year in our English Liturgy but to our Crueller enemies within the Church P. 414. item 282. Whom our Lord hath enjoyned us not onely to forgive but pray for to love their souls to pray for their repentance and desire they may be sharers of immortality and blisse of which we shall not have the lesse but rather the more for having sharers and tells us on St. John 13.35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples c Love to Christians as Christians is as the badge and Cognizance the testimony and proof of our real discipleship under Christ and the firmest bond to hold us together in peace and love not so much that we are of one Countrey but that we are of one Christ or to expresse it with St. Paul that we have but One Faith One Baptism Doct. Hammonds Pract. Catechism under meekness to continue constant to the doctrine of the Catholick Church and maintain the inward Communion that of Charity with all the true Church of God wheresoever they are and with particular Churches so far as to embrace them with the armes of Christian Charity to joyn even with the erroneous Churches so far as they are not erroneous Separating onely from their Corruptions Idem on first Epist of St. John 3.14 We know that we are regenerate Christians by our Chariry to other men which he that hath not is clearly an unregenerate unchristian person Idem the first Epist St. John 4.7 And evidence of our being from God is Charity to our fellow Christians for that is most strictly commanded and exemplified to us from God and no practice renders us so like to Gods example and so concordant to his precepts as the sincere exercise of this duty Dr. Barrow 's Vnity of the Church annexed to his Treatise against the Popes Supremacy P. 36. The genuine meaning of that article Catholick Church may reasonably be deemed this that we professe our adhering to the body of Christians which diffused over the World doth retain the saith taught the Discipline settled the practises appointed by our Lord and Saviour and his Apostles that we maintain general Charity towards all good Christians that we are ready to entertain Communion in holy offices with all such Item on Rom 12.18 pag. 230 231. Serm. 3. pursue peace with all without any exception with men of all Nations Jewes and Greeks and Barbarians of all Sects and Religions persecuteing Jews and Idolatrous Heathens as at that time men of all judgments and perswasions Neither is there any evading our obligation to this duty by pretending of others that they entertain opinions irreconcileably contrary to ours that they adhere to Sects and Parties which we dislike and disavow that they are not so vertuous so Religious so Holy as they should be or at least not in such a mannner as we would have them Bishop Saundersons Sermon 3. Ad Aulam sect 39. Here is that evil partiality we are to take heed of when we restrain the Brotherhood or Neighbour to some one party or society in the Church such as we think good of and exclude the rest as if they had no part or fellowship in this Brotherhood nor consequently any right to that special affection where with we are to love the Brethren which partiailty hath indeed been the very bane of the Churches unity and peace and the chief Cause both of the beginning and of the Continuance of most of the Schisms under which Christendom hath groaned from time to time Englands Black Tribunal p. 222. As I am a Member of this Church so I am a Member of the Holy Catholick Church as I hold Communion with so I love and honour all Christians in the World that love the same Lord Jesus in sincerity and call on his name agreeing with those Truths that are absolutely necessary and clearly demonstrated in the Word of God though in charity dissenting from some others that are not necessary Dr. Hewyt's Speech at the Scaffold Dr Alestrey's Sermon p. 168. Our Saviours addition Matth. 5.44 saith that we must love our Enemies The Christians hath no Canaanites as Deut. 7. but the most prosligate Adversaries of his Religion he must love and pray for them although they persecute him which makes appear it doth at least include enemies of Religion for persecutions seldom were upon any other ground And Christ hath proved that the
procure and preserve peace among our selves as Men and Christians Condemn us not to our passions Clear up our understandings to see thy Truth and encline all our hearts to hold the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace Give us that Charity which should be among our selves and bestow upon us that peace which onely Christ our great peace-maker can merit Bishop Salisburies Exhortation to Peace and Vnion p. 34. Let us all resolve to spend some portion of our time at least an hour every Week in earnest prayers to him for the peace of his Jerusalem among us and for continuing our Religion still with us It is his cause and we ought chiefly to offer it up to him for his protection and defence and if our sins do not defeat our prayers we may hope that a considerable number of such Intercessions will procure great blessings to us especially we having the assistance of those who have taken Sanctuary among us Mr. Pygots Abners Plea for Accommodation p. 15. Never leave wrestling with the God of peace by uncessant and earnest prayers till he be entreated for the land to settle peace amongst us that the Lyon and the Lamb might lye down together Causes of decay of Christian Piety p. 419. Oh that we might see our impertinent strifes superseded and all moulded into the one Noble emulation who shall fastest unravel his own mischief and promote that peace he hath hitherto disturbed This indeed were worthy to be the united design of all Learned men and were it once so who knows how prosperous it might be Item p. 227. Who knows what a powerful exorcism the United Intercessions of the Christian World might have been had we jointly deprecated our quarrels God might have found a way to have composed them tho we could not Forms of Prayer upon the Fast Day 22d Dec. 1680. In the prayer for Union amongst our Selves Blessed Jesu aur Saviour and our Peace Look down in much Pity and Compassion upon this distressed Church and Nation whose bleeding wounds occasioned by the lamentable divisions that are among us cry aloud for thy speedy help and saving relief stir up we beseech thee every Soul of us carefully as becomes sincere Christians to root out of our-hearts all Pride and vain Glory all wrath and bitterness all unjust prejudice and causeless jealousie all Hatred and Malice and desire of Revenge and whatsoever it is that may any way exasperate our minds or hinder us from discerning the things that belong unto our peace That as there is but one body and one Spirit and one Hope of our Calling one Lord one Faith c. So we may henceforth be all of one heart and of one Soul closely united in one Holy bond of Truth and Peace of Faith and Charity and so far as it is possible and an Vnion is attainable with one mind and one mouth glorifie God Licensed according to Order FINIS A Table of the several Heads ACknowledged by Conformists that there are Good and Worthy Men amongst the Dissenters Salvation for such as are faithful in the common duties of Christianity That Protestants are agreed in the main The Creed contains all Truths necessary to Salvation Conformists not forward in censuring men as guilty of Heretical and damnable Errors None to be shut out of the Church and denied Communion for lesser sins or Errors That our Love must be Catholick An Agreement of all Christians in one Perswasion not to be expected Mutual Favour and Forbearance to be practised in our diversity of Judgments Force and capital Severities censured in matters of Religion Of Confessions of Faith and their Articles c.
AN ANTIDOTE AGAINST BIGOTRY IN RELIGION OR A DISCOURSE proving from the Testimony of Kings Nobles Judges Bishops Deans Doctors c. That Wise and Good Men may differ one from another both in Doctrine and Discipline and maintain Christian Charity amongst themselves By a true Berean LONDON Printed in the Year 1694. AN ANTIDOTE AGAINST BIGOTRY IN RELIGION READER IT is a Matter of great Lamentation to consider of the Decay of true Primitive Christianity and that instead of it is sprung up Bigotism on the one side and Scepticism on the other Never was there more need to call for Engines and Buckets to quench the Flames of Contention now kindled amongst us upon the account of different Modes of Worship and Controverted Points of Doctrine My Design is not to Applaud or Condemn any one party of Christians among us but to perswade them all to be Humble and Charitable and to believe that they have finite Understandings and fallible Apprehensions and ought not to be peremptory for or against little things nor too positive in any thing but those great things wherein Christians are all agreed I would gladly know why another Man may not differ from me with the same Sincerity that I differ from him and why he may not as well call me a Knave or Fool for not being of his mind as I call him so for his not being of mine I may well ask the old Question Which way went the Spirit of God from him to me that I should smite my Fellow-servant with my Hand Tongue or Pen I hope the Sentiments of these great Men in the following pages will make the World more Modest for the future I am sure we have seen little good produced by all our Clamorous Reflections one upon another God help us Every Party amongst us Contends so eagerly for our several Forms that we have almost lost the Power and our Bigotry for Circumstantials hath almost swallowed up our true Zeal for the substantial part of Religion There is Truth enough among all Parties to Save Men and Malice enough to Dam Angels I think true Religion consists in our Love to God and one another I am sure our Great Lord and Master has told us so and I will venture my Salvation upon his Authority for whoever wants those Qualifications is as far from Eternal Blessedness as a Jew or a Mahometan notwithstanding his Bigotry for his particular Mode of Worship We have abundance of Protestant Popery now in England and think our selves as infallible in our several Churches as they do in theirs and make no scruple to cast all such into our fiery Furnaces who will not Bow down to the Images of our Imaginations did not our Laws tye our Hands behind us We have seen several Forms uppermost in England at one time or other but wise men are Indifferent about indifferent things and submit them to the Wisdom of their Superiors So long as God's Word is truly preached Sacraments rightly administred Peace and good Order preserved they trouble not themselves about Vesture Gesture Time and Place If there were a General Council called to resolve this Question viz. which among all the several Parties now in Christendom are most in the right I am perswaded they would be voted the wisest men and the best Christians who are of no Sect or Party but choose out of all that which is most agreeable to Truth and Reason and tends most to promote the Glory of God and the Salvation of Men. They are certainly in the surest way to Heaven who most abound with sincere Piety and Catholick Charity and can hold Communion with any true Church of Christ which is sound in the Substantials of Religion notwithstanding some different Modes of Administration so long as nothing is required which they judge to be sinful Give me the true Evangelical Catholick that does not confine Salvation to his own particular Communion nor call every man a Heretick that is not of his private Perswasion God Almighty never required of men an exact uniformity in Ecclesiastical Ceremonies nor Systimatical Opinions but he has made our Salvation and Damnation depend upon our Faith and Holiness and they are very consistent with divers ways of Worship and with variety of Apprehensions in divine matters The most wise and sagacious men among all Parties have exclaimed against Bigotry in Religion especially when their thoughts have run pure from dregs of secular Interest But if once they have been biassed by the fears of Displeasing a popular Congregation or by the hopes of obtaining some Ecclesiastical Promotion they have then discover'd a mighty Zeal for the silver Shrines of Diana I can truly say with the Reverend Dr. Tennison present Bishop of Lincoln that I heartily thank God I have found in Conversation so much of good Temper and real Piety in many Men upon whom Rashness had fixed Names of Infamy Epist to his Spittle Sermon 1681. Mr. Baxter gives this Character of the Inhabitants of the Parish of Kidderminster in Worster-shire whereof he was Minister viz. the things which I loved in you I will freely praise which were a special measure of Humility a plain Simplicity in Religion a Freedom from the Common Errors of the Times a readiness to receive the Truth a Catholick Temper without addictedness to any Sect an exemption from Schism and Separating ways a hatred and disowning of the Usurpations and Rebellions against the Civil Government an open bearing of Testimony in all these Cases together with Seriousness in Religion and a sober righteous charitable and godly Conversation Dr. Owen has told the World that they meaning the Independants never entertained a Thought uncharitable to such a Prodigy of Insolence as to exclude any sort of Christians from an Interest in the Love of God or Grace of Christ or Hopes of Salvation because they do not or will not comply with those ways and Terms of Church-Communion which they approve of How far saith the same Dr. Errors in Judgment or miscariages in sacred Worship which any sort of Professors have superadded unto Divine Truth may be of so pernicious a Nature as to hinder them from an Interest in the Covenant and to prejudice their Eternal Salvation God only knows But the Notion says he we have concerning the Nature and Will of God in Scripture do perswade us to believe that where men do in sincerity improve the Ablities and means of Kowledge of Divine Truth wherewith they are intrusted endeavouring withall to Answer their Light and Convictions with a suitable Obedience there are but few Errours of Mind of so malignant a Nature as absolutely to exclude such Persons from an Interest in Eternal Mercy And we look upon the Church of England or the Generality of the Nation Professing the Christian Religion measuring them by the Doctrine that has been preached to them and received by them since the Reformation to be as Sound and Healthful a part of the Catholick Church as any in the World and we wholly deny that the Mistakes and Disorders of Christians in complying with or joyning themselves unto such Churches as
honest and upright and sincere hearts to God-ward and are unfeignedly Zealous for Gods Truth and for Religion They that are such no doubt feel the Comfort of it in their own Souls and we see the Fruits of it in their Conversations and rejoyce at it Judge Hales Discourse of Religion pag. 21. Some persons truly Conscientious observing the many corruptions that the Romish Church hath brought into the Worship of God are very suspicious of any thing that may look as they think that way though they are otherwise Men of sound and Orthodox Principles and of a truly Righteous and Sober Life Item p. 13. Scrupulous of the Ceremonies otherwise sound in the principles of Faith Pious and Strict in their Lives Just and Honest to all men and Sober Temperate and Blameless Mr. Smithies Spirit of Meekness pag. 71. It may be they are good Men and were converted by that Minister or some other of the same perswasion from the ways of Wickedness to the practice of Religion 'T is well quoted by a late Learned Writer for the Church in the division of hearts that is in the World it 's certain some good may Dissent Bishop Tailor Duct Dub. P. 3. ch 4. Rule 23. Sect. 8. Item Collect. of Discourse Epist Dedic before Liberty of Prophesie It s an hard Case that we should think all Papists and Anabaptists and Sacramentaries bad men certainly among all these Sects there are very many Wise Men and Good Men as well as Erring Mr. D' l'Angles Letter to the Bishop of London It is certain that among the multitude that follow them i. e. the Separatists there is a very great Number of good Men whose Faith is pure and whose Piety is sincere and seems to me that the good and charitable Bishops ought to say of them though in something a different sence as Optatus Milevitanus said of the Donatists in his time Si Collegium Episcopale nobiscum habere nolunt tamen fratres sunt Doctor Stillingfleet Mischief of Separation p. 9. I cannot perswade my self that so many scrupulous and conscientious men as are at this day among us would live so many years in a known sin i. e in a state of Separation from the Communion of a Church which in Conscience they thought themselves obliged to communicate with Conformists Plea for the Nonconformists Part 4. pag. 17. Some have their Indiscretions and their Mistakes and their Heats and their Blemishes and what Party have not But if the Grace of God hath appeared to any men and if any are taught to deny Ungodliness and Worldly Lusts and to live Soberly Righteously and Godlily in this present World as I am sure there are there are such among them Pag. 20. What an Example was the most faithful and successful Mr. Baxter whose practice was copied after his Gildas Salvianus and the Ministers of that Association How diligent was Mr. Stubbs Mr. Allen Mr. Wadsworth and others Idem pag. 27. The chief of the Congregational are Men of great Worth Learning Sobriety and Holiness The Anabaptist such as are simply scrupulous in the point of Baptism are reputed peaceable and holy men by them that write against them as Mr. Baxter Mr. Obad. Wills and Mr. Joseph Whiston Lastly The Quaker must have the right of Humanity they who scrupled swearing did call God to witness and did protest and promise Loyalty and Obedience They offered the security of their words and bodies to the Law when found Transgressors against the Peace There are many things commendable in them Idem p. 101. As far as my Acquaintance doth extend to the Nonconformists I must do them this Justice that they are of a Loving Healing and Uniting Spirit I have heard them speak very well of good Conformists and as free to acknowledge the Grace of God in them as in those of their own perswasion Principles and Practice c. p. 28. The matters in Controversie i. e. of Conformity between men of confessedly great worth and goodness I declare for my part and care not who knows it that I love with my heart a sober and peaceable minded Nonconformist as much Conformist as I am my self and I think him never the worse man that is so supposing I perceive him Conscientious in other Matters and particularly that he is not of a Censorious Seditious and Tumultuous Spirit but yet such I would not hate neither but pity and pray for them Car's peaceable Moderator Pref. Some of the dis-affected to the Book of Common Prayers I take to be good Christians Honest Moderate and well meaning people c. Item in another place I make no Question but some are right honest Men and truly pretend Conscience that they cannot submit to such Orders and to such and such Rites Testimony of above an 100 Non conformists for the Lawfulness of Lay-Communion speaking of the Nonconformists those good men who met after the Plague having preached to the People in the time of the Plague Mr. Dodwell 's Letters of Holy Orders Our Conscientious dissenting brethren c. pag. 22. Their Errors themselves are innocent to such as are more intent on the improvement of Christianity it self then any subdividing Denomination Stop to the Course of Separation pag. 37. I will not deny but that some yea many of the Ministers that are now laid aside while they had their Ministerial standing in the Parish Churches and Catholick Communion were profitable Memorial from the English Protestants to his present Majesty when Prince of Orange pag. 28. Four of our succeeding Parliaments perceived the abuse of these Penal Laws and the mischief thereby to conscious Christians and declared there intention of relieving them Doctor Burnet Bishop of Salisbury on Matth. 12.25 Of the Dissenters who though in Errors yet may be good men in the main for ought we know Doctor Barrow 's Sermons against Evil Speaking He that loveth and Reverenceth God will acknowledge and approve his Goodness in bestowing gifts and graces to his Brethren he will be afraid to disavow or disgrace them that he may not rob God himself of the glory due to his Favour and Mercy Item pag. 20. God is jealous of his Glory and therefore cannot endure it to be abused by slurring his good gifts and graces Glanv Cathol Char. pag. 55. That our Brethren may be good men though they understand not many things in which we judge aright Item pag. 22. Let us then be so ingenuous as to own the vertue and goodness that is in all Parties and Opinions Let us commend and love it And Page 56. We should converse indifferently with all perswasions without wrangling or discord and exercise our Charity and good will towards the good men of any sort This will be a means to sweeten our Spirits and to remove the Animosities we are apt to conceive against the persons of Dissenters and it will engage them on the other hand to a greater kindness for us and so lessen our distance and disagreements Doctor Ham.
the Church of England and of his works pag. 138. pag. 192. Of the abuse of Excommunication vide c. Hooker 's Discourse of Justification pag. 54. If was a perilous Error that the Galatians held about Justification yet so far was St. Paul from striking their Names out of Christ's Book that he commandeth others to receive them i. e. to have communion with them with singular Humanity use them as Brethren he knew mans imbecility had a feeling of our blindness which are Mortal Men how great it is The Judgment of the Professors of Divinity in the Vniversity of Aberdeen mentioned pag. 707 is not unsuitable to this Subject That the condition of that Church is worse and incomparably more lamentable that is so swelled and puft up with the splendour of its Golden Edifice upon the Foundation or of its Orthodoxy that neglecting Charity and Equanimity and trampling on the Law of Christ fastidiously rejects and Anathematizeth other Churches Orthodox in the Foundation and willing to maintain place with it than is the condition of those Churches who though they are infirm in Faith inferiour in knowledge do yet hold in the Foundation maintain inviolable Charity and after the Example of Blessed Cyprian do neither judge nor separate from Communion those who think otherwise than themselves Dr. Casaubon 's Necessity of Reformation pag. 142. cited by Dr. Puller 's Moderation c. pag. 436. Were there nothing else objected to Papists but this one thing their uncharitable proscribing and Excommunicating all Christians in all parts of the World as in the Council of Trent imposing her Doctrines which were but disputable before to be de fide with an Anathema to such as thought of them otherwise who are not of their Communion and obliging all that adhere unto them to profess the same I should think that one thing a just ground of Separation or forsaking their Communion Dr. Steward 's Englands Case pag. 26. When Men cast out of the Church Catholick and so damn to Hell all those that hold not their Opinions this St. Augustine oft-times calls Schism in the Donatists I could name you those who are guilty of this but I am sure our dear Mother is not who hath been so mild to those who have most highly opposed her Dr. Hammond's Pract. Catech. Vpon Blessed are the Peace-makers We are not to think our own Opinions in Religion such as are not of Faith of such importance as to deny Communion or Salvation to those who differ from us Item of Schism pag. 165. and pag. 166. That as we exclude no Christian from our Communion that will either Filially and Fraternally embrace it with us being ready to admit any to our Assemblies that acknowledge the Foundation laid by Christ and his Apostles so we as earnestly desire to be admitted to the like Freedom of External Communion with all the Members of all other Christian Churches as often as occasion makes us capable of that Blessing And pag. 5. Tell us the Governours of the Church use to inflict that punishment of Excommunication on the most scandalous Sinner And pag. 15. Calls it that very condition into which the Adulterer and obstinate offender is cast by the Censures of the Church Hammond of the Keys chap. 5. Sect. 18. The more shame for the over-easie denouncers of that censure that inflict it for every trivial commission without consideration whether or no repented of or that use this Sovereign Recipe unadvisedly for any other end than Reforming the Profane Dr. Puller 's Moderation of the Church of England pag. 366. It is evident that the Divine Moderation of our Church considers the frame of Man and the uncertainty difficulty and imperfection of Humane Knowledge the weakness and variety of Humane Understandings she alloweth much to the force of Prejudice Education and the power and artifice of Seducers Our Church makes a great reserve of Dispensation to persons of Modest Humble Docible and peaceable Spirits and proportions her Censures to the degrees of Malice and the Unchristian Temper which appears in Offenders Dr. Cumber on the Common-Prayer in the Commination Discipline with-held in favour of Dissenters least the imposing it there should make this Holy Means of Reformation despised rather than obeyed Item pag. 369. Dr. Puller Wherefore the Institution of a Christian Man made by Cranmer saith the Bishops are not bound so precisely but they may attemper and forbear the execution of their Jurisdiction when by so doing the cure of the offenders and the tranquility of the Church may be furthered Item pag. 35. According to Equity our Church desires all her Laws may be Interpreted Benignius Leges interpretandae sunt c. She admits of a Mitigation of a rigid Sentence And pag. 11. Disposeth them where the Laws press too hard upon particular persons to relax the Rigour of them Pag. 370. Wherefore those who in Execution of the Church Discipline abuse the most excellent Temper of the Church in the constitution of her Laws under the pretence of Ecclesiastical Authority verily they most of all deserve the Churches Rod and the dire point of her Anathema Let it be considered said Bishop Tailor Ductor Dub. L. 3. pag. 259. How Great a reproach it is to Ecclesiastical Discipline if it be made to Minister to Covetousness and to the needs of Proctors and Advocates Bishop Bramhall pag. 14. Vindicat. of the Church To exclude none from Catholick communion and hope of Salvation either Eastern or Western or Southern or Northern Christians which profess the Faith of the Apostles and Primitive Fathers established in the first General Councils and comprehended in the Apostolick Nicene and Athanasian Creeds and lastly to hold an Actual External Communion with them in votis in our desires and to endeavour it by all lawful means Item pag. 17. There is not the like necessity of communicating in all Externals there is not so great conformity to be expected in ceremonies as in the Essentials of Sacraments Bishop Bilson of Subjection Part 2. pag. 223. Edit 4. It is a most pernitious fancy to think that divers Nations and Countries differing by Customs Laws and Manners so they hold one and the same Rule of Faith in the Bond of Peace cannot be parts of the Catholick Church Communicant one with another The Communion of Saints standeth not in External Rights Customs and Manners but in believing the same truth tasting of the same grace resting on the same Hope calling on the same God rejoycing in the same Spirit whereby they be sealed sanctified and preserved unto the day of Redemption Causes of Decay of Christian Piety pag. 285. As Christ when he forewarned his Disciples of the ensuing persecution tells them not only they should be killed but they should be put out of the Synagogue so now as if Christians were emulous of every branch of Jewish Cruelty we transcribe that part of the Copy too and either by causeless Excommunicating others or separating our selves we deny the