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 of the same River or Mountain is. Or lastly, as the wearing Ribbon of several Colours, usually hath been; for Jewes, Christians, and Mahumetans, notwithstanding their vast difference, do not make so much noise and squabble as the subdivided Sectaries do, their animosities being so much the greater, by how much their differences are smaller: Upon which grounds, some (with too much truth, as well as too much looseness) have pronounced that gathering of Churches may be termed lifting of Souldiers.

I say moreover as a further excuse for my misguided Prosecutors, the Anabaptists, That 'twas not as Anabaptists that they have so often in this kind troubled the State, themselves, their Neighbours, and Me: But as Separatists from another form, in more visible repute and vogue, in which sense I conceive that even Cathedrall Protestants were heretofore as much, and no otherwise troublesome to the preflourishing Papists, and so will the Quaker be to the Anabaptists themselves. Besides, whoever departs from a commonly received Religion otherwise then out of Sequacity, and for Ends, must be of a