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meddelanden och aktstycken
truth in vnrighteousnes. Therefore wee must learne to Judge of
Religion not by this or that name but by the thinge in it selfe
without any relation to one party or other, seekinge the meanes to
doe good towards all without difference. Mr. Niclassius of whom
you send another extract wrote a while agoe vnto mee somewhat
doubtfully of my worke. Hee entreaties mee not to diuulge the
writes w:ch those of Prussia and Polonia haue sent vnto mee as I
haue done ye writes of others; hee adds these words: Omnia apud
nos sunt suspicionum plena facile aliquid suspicar[i] quispiam possit
quod nunquam cuiquam nostratium in mentem venit, Conijci possit
sub specie Religionis aut Pacificationis negotio p[er] te aliud in
Suecia quæri.
This was of the 4th of August. What hee mean[es] by this I
knowe not I haue not written to him as yet but I will promise him
to doe as hee desireth. Onely labour you to assure him of my
true intention and let him not leaue of to cooperate. This I will
also do towards him and Mr Comenius; with his letter hee sent
mee a booke against Bocsacus which is very well written for the
vnidicatinge of the Reformed tenets. It is called Reformatus
Au-gustrinus Georg. Pauli S. Th: doct. printed at Bremen this yeare.
Concerninge that other freind you write of I consider his state and
person with a great deale of tendernes. For in his standinge you
knowe what Interest I haue. Let him not therefore expose mee to
hazard cheifely at this tyrne, wherein I am to walke as through the
midst of a fire on all sides, because the more this my worke is
taken notice of and becommeth publique the more Jealousies will
encrease & p[er]haps oppositions, rise from euill willers. I labour
and hee also must doe the like to keepe the relations of this worke
onely towards the publique. Let him bee as I am free from siding with
parties and learne to Judge of all things with indifferencie, notspeakinge,
or complayninge much of wronges done to any or of the circumstances
of tymes, but doeing what is to bee done and thinkinge what may
bee thought in silence, and when hee cannot p[er]haps contayne
himselfe any longer but must breake forth then let prayers bring
forth his words rather to speake to God — by way of Complaint then
to men to grudge and fret, and soe make the euill affections of
mens spirits worse then they are. The way of inward peace is
very easy if wee could but learne to followe it, and that would
shewe vs the doré to bee without offence and peaceable in the
outward carriage of our life.
The 2: [other] writes I haue not read as yet by reason of my
manifold distractions and because 1 doe reserue those thoughts till
I can find a tyrne to set upon them th[o]roughly which now yet I
cannot soe soone promise to my selfe by reason of some difficultie[s]
in my worke whereof my former letters did giue you some notice.
If it please god to ridd mee out of these straites fairely that I can
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