Bum. _Really this is admirable: So that we that are the =Elect= are bound up by no =Laws= at all, either of =God= or of =Man=._
_Citt._ Why look you now for that; we _Are_, and we are _Not_. If it so happens that the _Inward_ and _Invisible Spirit_ move us to do _the same thing_, which the _Outward_, and _Visible Law_ requires of us; in _That Case_ we are _Bound_; but so, as to the _Spirit_, not to the _Law_: and therefore we are bid to _stand fast in our Christian Liberty_.
Bum. _That's extreamly well said, for if =We Christians= should be Shackled with =Human Laws=, which can only reach the =Outward Man=, then are =the Heritage of the Lord=, in no better Condition then the =Wicked=, and the =Heathen=._
_Citt._ Oh! th'art infinitely in the Right: for if it were not for this _Christian Liberty_, we could never have _Justify'd_ our Selves in our _Late Transactions_: the _Designe_ of _Overturning the Government_ had been _Treason_; taking up _Arms_ against the _King_, _Rebellion_; _Dividing_ from the _Communion_ of the _Church_ had been _Schism_; appropriating the _Church Plate_, and _Revenues_ to _Private Uses_, had been _Sacriledge_; Entring upon _Sequester'd Livings_ had been _Oppression_: taking away mens _Estates_ had been _Robbery_; _Imprisoning_ of their _Persons_ had been _Tyranny_; using the name of _God_ to all This, would have been _Hypocrisy_, forcing of _Contradictory Oaths_ had been _Impiety_, and Shedding the _Blood_ both of the _King_, and his _People_, had been _Murther_: And all This would have appear'd so to be, if the _Cause_ had come to be _Try'd_ by the _Known Laws_ either of _God_, or of _Man_.
Bum. _Make us thankfull now! What a blessed State are we in, that =Walk up to our Calling=, in =Simplicity= and =Truth=, whose =Yea= is =Yea=, and whose =Nay= is =Nay=. 'Tis a strange way thou hast, =Citt=, of making things out to a man. Thou wert saying but now, that the =same thing= may be a =Sin= in =One Man=, and =not= in =Another=. I'm thinking now of the =Jesuites=._
_Citt._ Oh That's a _Jugling, Equivocating, Hellish_ sort of _People_; 'tis a thousand pitties that they're suffer'd to live upon the Earth; They value an _Oath_ no more then they do a _Rush_. Those are the _Heads_ of the _Plot_ now upon the Life of the _King_, the _Protestant Religion_, and the _Subversion_ of the _Government_.