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The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 34 (p.100) |
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To my very true and very good friend Sir Henry Goodere. sir, At some later reading, I was more af- fected with that part of your Letter, which is of the book, and the namelesse Letters, then at first. I am not sorry, for that affection were for a jealousie or suspici- on of a flexibilty in you. But I am angry, that any should think, you had in your Re- ligion peccant humours, defective, or abundant, or that such a booke, (if I mistake it not) should be able to work upon you; my comfort is, that their judg- ment is too weak to endanger you, since by this is confesses, that it mistakes you, in thinking you irresolved or various: yet let me be bold to fear, that that sound true opi- nion, that in all Christian professions there is way to salvation (which I think you think) may have been so incommodiously or intempestively sometimes uttered by you; or else your having friends equally [CW: near] |
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