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First DIALOGUE.
I have read your Preface and Principles, and methinks you drive to e∣stablish a new Religion; for that unlimit∣ed Liberty, which you assert for to be∣lieve or not believe, whatever we please with a safe Conscience, is not allowed by any of our Reformed Congregations; and it were to be wish'd, you should rather stick to some one of the Congregations now Established, than to e∣rect a new one, for we have but too many al∣ready.
The Lord forbid I should think or speak otherwise than as becometh a true Child of the Reformation: If you will oblige me to believe Scripture as interpreted by the Lutheran Church (the like I say of any other Congrega∣tion) and deny the Tenets of all others, what difference betwixt me and a Papist in the Electi∣on of my Religion? For the Papists Religion must be no other, but Scripture as Interpreted by the Pope and Councils; my Religion must be Scripture as interpreted by the Lutheran Church, and no other; my Judgment and Conscience therefore is as much constrained as that of the Papist and our Separation from Popery will come to be but an Exchange of