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A34014	Collop, John.	Charity commended, or, A catholick Christian soberly instructed by J.C.	1667.0		.xml	application/xml	34549	963	55	●gh the prayer-toyes of idle children while they misuse paper , and mispend time , are of as great value as the elaborate pieces of most polemicks : whose books are the disguises of faction and diseases of Charity , by irreligious disputes of what they miscall religion , drawing that blood which should quicken the heart of Religion from mens hearts into their heads , leaving their hearts destitute of zeal to God and mutuall dilection ; and filling their hearts with choler , which produces that phrantick zeal which discomposes the world ; or stuffing them with ph●egm which lulls them into a Lethargy of indifferency in religion ; or raising those melancholy vapors which cause these Epileptick paroxisms in quaking enthusiasts : Hence comes this morris dance of religions , & the glorious body of Christianity , minced into factions makes but an Olio , distastefull to Jew or Gentile ▪ and it would be a wonder to have a Iew converted to Christianity , to what sect soever he was converted , the other would condemn him : and this might not seem a way to come to God , but a path to Belial , & even amougst Christians I have known not a few whose too forward zeal to find out religion hath carried them out of all religion : when their fiery zeal had made a blaze , it went out in the stench of Atheism . By being charitable to all , I cannot deserve evill of any ; and I hope no national Church so ill but may deserve my charity : the first sally of my pen intended nothing beside an Apologeticall Epistle , and by an autops●e , or self-unravelling to satifie my self ; and a Romanist of him , of whom he had talk'd much , and knew little ( proposing neither order , or method , it being my Province to unravel the mysteries of riddling nature , rather then the disguises of Antick Polemicks , but my glib penne found it easier to ingage then to retreat , and while the multitude of my own thoughts oppress'd me , the fear of my own disability would not suffer me to betray the succours which reason offer'd , even the whole militant Church , lending the weapons of Antagonists , and offering the Canons of the Church against them ; which I shall bring in with the flag of defiance to no Christian Communion : neitheir make use of the forces to gratifie any faction , for all carry the Angels motro , glory be to God on high , and goodwil towards men .	cache/A34014.xml	txt/A34014.txt
