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^ Faith :
The Authors Travels. ao i
We find the abfurdities of theRomifb
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Church have juftly given you offence, but our
" Religion is free from thofe Errors : I am not
" indeed fit to difpute with you, but if you
" will confent to it, I will fpeak to fome of
" our Lutheran Minifters, and I hope you will
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receive more fatisfa£lion from them than you
" did from the Romifh Priefts. I anfwer'd, that
I (hould be always ready to embrace any Religion,
when I was once convinced of the truth of
it. The Collonel then appointed the day when
I fhould meet thefe Minifters at his Houfe 5 in
the mean time, the Minilter of Miithem^ a Village
about three Miles from Cologn^ and two
Chaplains of the Brandenhurgh Regiments, and
the Lutheran Minifter of Cologn were engag'd to
manage this Conference.
Here, by way of digreffion, I muft beg leave
to acquaint the Reader, that neither Lutherans
nor Calvin jjis are allow'd any publick divine
Worfhip in Cologn in the time of Peace, but in
War they meet as often as they pleafe ^ for this
liberty is granted for the fake of the Soldiers,
when there are Proteftant-Confederates in Garrifon,
but when the City is only defended by thejr
own Soldiers, thefe Meeting-places are all fhur,
and the Citizens that are Lutherans or Cahinifts
crofs the Water to a place called Duiits to have
the benefit of publick Prayers and Sermons. But
to return.
As yet I was unacquainted with the Tenets of
Xh^Lutherans ^ but the better to qualifie my fejf
for the difpute, I went to a Cahinifts and as'd
him the difference between his Principles and the
Lutherans ^ He anfwered, that the main point
they differ'd in v^zsConfubftantiatwn^ which is a
Doftrine, fays he,
as abfurd as the RomifJo Tran-
[uhjiantiation.