I returne vnto yow many harty thankes for your kind acceptance of my letter, though it might haue appeared too playne and rude vnto yow and so deserue your Censure;2 it hath gladded many of our harts to see your hart and the truth embracing each other, euen tho errour for peace sake hath pleaded for entertaynment, which yow haue turnd out of your hart and house and town to vs to burne to death: the haeretick is yet kept prisoner but we intend to see justice executed on him accordinge to your desire. It would be a woorke of singular benifit and vse to wyar-draw by way of question and doubt those hidden misteries which may be the causes of diuision; for I feare there is aliquid incognitionis, which will in time appeare; errour hath bin euer fruitfull, and commonly false opinions which creepe out of doores and appeare in the battayle, are but the stragglers of the great army, which tho they be taken prisoners, yet little good will be done, because they haue a party within which will renew the battayle when occasion serues; there is a kind of religion in the woorld which the author of it calls the Vnknowing of a mans selfe, which is a mistery I must not open; the god of heauen still fill yow and preserue yow holy and faythfull to his cause and truth euen vntill death: I am in much hast and haue no leysure this day to come to Boston, when I doe I shall acknowledge your loue; thus in great hast I rest, Yours in the Lord Jesus