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Vvholsome Severity reconciled with CHRISTIAN LIBERTY. OR, The true Resolution of a present Controversie concerning Liberty of CONSCIENCE.

Here you have the Question stated, the middle way between Popish Tyrannie and Schismatizing Liberty approved, and also confirmed from Scripture, and the testimonies of Divines, yes of whole Churches: The chiefe Arguments and Exceptions used in The Bloudy Tenent, The Compassionate Samaritane, M. S. to A. S. &c. examined. Eight Distinctions added for qualifying and clearing the whole matter. And in conclusion a Paraenetick to the five Apologists for choosing Accommodation rather then Toleration.

Imprimatur. Ia. Cranford. Decemb. 16. 1644.

August. contra primam Gaudentii Epist. c. 5.

Absit autem ut ista persecutio dicenda sit hominum, cum sit potius pro hominibus liberandis persecutio vitiorum, qualem facit aegris etiam diligentia medicorum.

Idem contra Epist. Parmen. lib. 1. cap. 7.

Prius enim preb[illegible] se non esse Haereticos vel Schismaticos, [illegible] demum de indignis poenis suis lividam emittant vocem, &c. nos corporum persecutores vocant, se animarum interfectores non vocant.

LONDON, Printed for Christopher Meredith, and are to be sold at the Signe of the Crane in Pauls Churchyard. 1645.

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