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The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 34, cont. (p.101) |
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near you of all the impresssions of Religion, may have testified such an indifferency, as hath occasioned some to further such incli- nations, as they have mistaken to be in you. This I have feared, because hertofore the in- obedient Puritans, and now the over-obe- dient Papists attempt you. It hath hurt ve- ry many, not in their conscience, nor ends, but in their reputation, and ways, that o- thers have thought them fit to be wrought upon. As some bodies are as wholesomly nourished as ours, with Akornes, and en- dure nakednesse, both which would be dangerous to us, if we for them should leave our former habits, though theirs were the Primitive diet and custome: so are many souls well fed with such formes, and dres- sings of Religion, as would distemper and misbecome us, and make us corrupt to- wards God, if any humane circumstance moved it, and in the opinion of men, though none. You shall seldome see a Coyne, upon which the stamp were re- moved, though to imprint it better, but it [CW: looks] |
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