rvices for God and
his people; he was no more to be moved to fear than to wrath. His
behaviour at Derby, Lichfield, Appleby, before Oliver Cromwell, at
Launceston, Scarborough, Worcester, and Westminster Hall, with many other
places and exercises, did abundantly evidence it, to his enemies as well
as his friends.

But as, in the primitive times, some rose up against the blessed apostles
of our Lord Jesus Christ, even from among those that they had turned to
the hope of the gospel, and became their greatest trouble; so this man of
God had his share of suffering from some that were convinced by him; who,
through prejudice or mistake, ran against him, as one that sought
dominion over conscience, because he pressed, by his presence or
epistles, a ready and zealous compliance with such good and wholesome
things, as tended to an orderly conversation about the affairs of the
church, and in their walking before men. That which contributed much to
this ill work, was, in some, a begrudging of this meek man the love and
esteem he had and deserved in the hearts of the people; and weakness in
others, that were taken with their groundless suggestions of imposition
and blind obedience.

They would have had every man independent, that as he had the principle
in himself, he should only stand and fall to that, and nobody else: not
considering that the principle is one in all; and though the measure of
light or grace might differ, yet the nature of it was the same; and being
so, they struck at the spiritual unity which a people, guided by the same
principle, are naturally led into: so that what is an evil to one, is so
to all; and what is virtuous, honest, and of good repute to one, is so to
all, from the sense and savour of the one universal principle which is
common to all, and which the disaffected also profess to be the root of
all true Christian fellowship, and that spirit into which the people of
God drink, and come to be spiritually-minded, and of one heart and one
soul.

Some weakly mistook good order in the government of church affairs, for
discipline in worship, and that it was so pressed or recommended by him
and other brethren. And thereupon they were ready to reflect the same
things that dissenters had very reasonably objected upon the national
churches, that have coercively pressed conformity to their respective
creeds and worships. Whereas these things related wholly to
conversation, and the outward, and, as I may sa