§. CXV.
I am amazed, or as in a Dream, to see the prevaricating of the Rebuker in Page 61, where speaking of Mr. Williams's Gospel-Truth stated, &c. he saith, Reader, thou hast heard much noise about that Book, and of the Subscription to it by some Ministers, I could wish thou wouldst be so just to the Subscribers, as to view with thine own Eyes, how far the Subscription extended— It was no more than this, They judged that he had, in all that was material, fully and rightly stated the Truths and Errors therein mentioned. I viewed this over and over, never suspecting a plain untruth in the Rebuker, but took it for granted that this was all that he had subscribed to, That he judged that Mr. Williams had, in all that was material, done as there is de∣clared: But being provoked to be just to him, and see with my own Eyes, I turned to the Subscription, and to my amazement found the old saying useful, 'Tis good to tell Money after ones Father; for he fell far short of saying the Truth, and the whole Truth of the Sub∣scription; for it extended far beyond what he saith it extended to: For there, to set off the Book, he stiles Mr. Williams, our Reverend Brother; and such a Character to the Book, is no small extolling it, that he is by Forty Nine Divines called our Reverend Brother, whereof my Dear Kratiste is one of the first three. But looking forward with mine own Eyes, I found he went ten times farther in celebrating the excellency of that Piece, which made such a Noise; a Noise that hath sounded into the Low Countries to indamage the Truth, as I have heard, and that is this, We do account (say the Forty Nine) that he hath done considerable Service to the Church of Christ. And what could they say more of Calvin, Melancthon, Lu∣ther? Nay, very little more of St. Paul's Epistles; I wish they said as much of some passages therein, Christ made Sin and made a Curse.