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[P]rivate spirits are too giddy to rest upon Scripture, and too heady and shallow to be acquainted with demonstrative arguments.
A Relation of the Conference betweene William Lawd...and Mr. Fisher the Jesuite (1639)
The time was, before this miserable rent in the Church of Christ—which I think no true Christian can look upon but with a bleeding heart—that you and we were all of one belief. That belief was tainted, in tract and corruption of times, very deeply.
A Relation of the Conference betweene William Lawd...and Mr. Fisher the Jesuite (1639)
Thus I said, and thus I say still; for though the foundation be one and the same in all, yet a "latitude" there is, and a large one too, when you come to consider, not the foundation common to all, but things necessary to many particular men's salvation.
A Relation of the Conference betweene William Lawd...and Mr. Fisher the Jesuite (1639)