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'- I ^hink them blanae-worthy for hiding
their Opinion. If there be no difference in our
r aith, bat rhat they and wc hold the fame Thing,
Cas they fometimes pretend to weak Members,:
when they have a mind to beguile them; then]
why ^o they ieparatc from us, and fet up Meetings
by themfelves ? Doubtlefs fomething is the:
matter, or elfe they would never be To bold to make
a Separation from us ^ I think it muft be fomctning,
and a great matter too that will warrant a
Separation from a true Church.
But to proceed ; There is a Difference in Point
of Faith, though they are not willing you fliould
know the Bottom of it till they have won you to
their Party ; for when I have perfonally blamed
them for feeking to hide their Principles, have they
not (old me to my Face, in words to this cffed",
That there are feme things that it is not proper or
profitable to divulge to weak Chriftians ?
And did
not D. T. own it in a Brother's Houfe at Bonrne^
that he fpake to that effed ? And did not T. J,
juftify the Saying, by referring to the Pradicc of
Chrirt and his Apoiiles, who (pake the Word to
the People as they were able to hear it ? And what
is this but to tell us, that they intend to referve
a full difcovery of thefe things till a fitter
Opportunity, when the People are better prepared
to hear them, and entertain them ^ And yet
they are not fuch profound Mylieries neither, but'
they may conveniently cnou^ be divulged to
fome young Converts.
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