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Rh striving to thrust others from their offices, and other disorders. Thence I went forth from here to behold those who are called reformed.

16. And I hear and see that some of these chapels (two or three that were near to each other) deliberated as to how they could become one; but they could find no compromise. Everyone maintained that which was in his own head, and endeavoured to persuade the others to agree to it. Some foolish ones took up at random any doctrine that came in their way; others more cunningly entered or left the divers chapels according to what appeared to them advantageous; and at last I was displeased by the confusion and wavering among these dear Christians.

17. Among these men there were some who said they had no concern with this strife; they walked