EXAMINER.
I Z wonder you would here expresse an indulgence which is not allowable, and the memory of the Parliament will be ho∣nourable for that; they knew so much divinity, as taught them not to value their offence, & to proclaim to them both in Eng∣land andA Ireland an irreconcilable warre. This carefulnesse and tendernesse you plead for, was the first principle which our Church so farre, as to take up their Altars and Ceremonies to avoid offence. Saint Paul was of another spirit who forbore not B a Disciple and Apostle. When I saw, saith he, that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the Gospell. You much mistake the Divinity of Christ, in matter of offence, who never forbore to preach, or publish any necessary truth: Nay, when his Disciples were scandalized, and said, this is an hard saying, doth this offend you, saith he? What and if, &c. He goeth on C and pursues the offence, till they left him and his Doctrine too. And for the Papists, they are much of the relati∣on and constitution of the Scribes and Pharisees, not without, as you say nor within & yet see if you can find our Saviour or his Apostles letting out themselves into such restrictions and mo∣deration, and cautions. Those truths which are essentially, D u∣niversally, alwayes and at all times holy ought not to be mea∣sured by the unbrage and scandall of the Adversary. Indeed in