"At last, upon those inducements, some well disposed Brownists, as they are termed, with some Gentlemen and Merchants of Layden and Amsterdam, to save charges would try their owne conclusions, though with great losse and much miserie till time had taught them to see their owne error; for such humorists will never beleeve well, till they bee beaten with their owne rod."
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