Sentiments and the same Opinions with ourselves, but also forbids us to abhor or to injure those who worship our God, but hold against us in some little Matters of Ceremony and the Manner of Worship; for such Hatred is hating a Brother, which the Apostle faith is Murder: And they who tear and rend all those who differ from them in PartyMatters, and injure them in their Characters, and revile and backbite them, such Persons are guilty of one Degree and one Species of Murther.

FOURTHLY, We endeavour'd to direct those Prisoners who had been guilty of spoiling and of praying upon their Fellow-Christians, which is the Consequence and the Height of Hatred towards them, how they were to act, lest the Severity of God's Judgments should fall upon them, and render them miserable in the next World, as well as unfortunate in this Life. As first, That they were candidly to acknowledge their Offences, to enumerate them all one by one, to God, and so to implore Pardon and Forgiveness; and then to say, with the Psalmist, David, Lord cleanse thou me from my secret Faults. That, secondly, They were to strive to cleanse their Hands, and to purify their Hearts, with the Assistance of God's Grace, who has promis'd his holy Spirit to those that ask it: And this, because unless we are regenerate, and born again, we cannot enter into the Kingdom of God; unless the Hearts of Despoilers were turn'd from the Love of Havock and Injustice, to the Love of Religion and Virtue; unless they took such a Delight and such a Satisfaction in Devotion and Prayers to God, as they once took in Drunkenness, Riottings, and Debaucheries, it was impossible, that if they were entering into another Life, it could be with Happiness; God being, as we are assur'd in the Word of God, a Being of purer Eyes than to behold Iniquity. And farther, That whatever their Performances might be, they must be far from relying upon them, or from claiming Heaven as their just Due, and just Reward for their Actions; but must, on the contrary, rely and depend alone upon the all-sufficient Merits of their Saviour and Redeemer, Jesus, Christ, who came down from Heaven to rescue Mankind from Ruin and Destruction, having purchas'd eternal Happiness for all, as many as will accept of the Tenders and Offers of his Mercy; as he saith he came not to call the Righteous, but Sinners to Repentance: And also, That the Person among those unhappy Persons under Condemnation, who had shed the Blood of a Man, should especially repent of so great a Crime, he not having allow'd the murther'd Man that Time and Space, and Opportunity for Repentance, which the Clemency of the Law did allow to him; but rashly cast him out of the World, without affording him so much as Time to say, Lord have Mercy upon me a Sinner. Lastly, We enumerated to them some of the Directions before given them, at other Times; which, if they pursu'd, tho' they died a Shameful and Ignominious Death, yet they might attain to eternal Joy and Felicity, as there was Mercy for the Thief upon the Cross, and will be for other Malefactors, if they earnestly seek for it; Christ himself having promis'd, that whosoever cometh to him, and taketh his Yoke upon him, Christ will give him rest.