A Golden Chain

As for the assemblies of Anabaptists, Libertines, Antinomies, Tritheists, Arians, Samosate•••ns, they are no churches of God, but conspiracies of mom strous heretics jud•••lly condemned in the primitive Church, and again by the malice of Satan •••ued and revived in this age. The same we are to think and say of the Family of love.

As for the ass•mbli•s of Anabaptists, Libertines, Antinomies, Tritheits, Arrians, Samosate•••ns, they are no churches of God, but conspiracies of mō strous heretickes iud•••lly condemned in the primitiue Church, and againe by the malice of Satan •••ued and reuiued in this age. The same we are to thinke and say of the Famili• of loue.

As for the Churches of Germany commonly called the Churches of the Lutherans, they are to be reputed of us as the true churches of God. Though their Augustan Confession have not satisfied the expectation of other Reformed Churches: yet have they all the same enemies in matter of religion, & do alike confess the Father, the Son, and the holy Ghost: and of the office of the Mediator, of faith and good works, of the Word, the Church and the Magistrate, are all of one judgement. They differ indeed from us in the question of the sacrament, but it is no sufficient cause to induce us to hold them as no Church: for that there is a true or real receiving of the body and blood of Christ in the Lords supper, we all agree; and we jointly confess that Christ is there present so far forth that he doth truly feed us with his very body and blood to eternal life: and all the controversy lies in the manner of receiving; we contenting our selves with that spiritual receiving which is by the hand of faith, they adding thereto the corporal, whereby they imagine them selves to receive Christ with the hand and mouth of the body. And though to maintain this their opinion, they be constrained to turn the ascension of Christ into a disparition, whereby his body being visible becomes invisible, yet in the main points we agree: that Christ ascended into heaven: that he entered into his kingdom in our name and for us: that we are governed and preserved by his power and might: and that whatsoever good thing we have or do, proceeds wholly from the grace of his spirit. Indeed the opinion of the Ubiquity of the body of Christ reviveth the condemned heresies of Eutiches and Nestorius, and it overturneth by necessary consequent most of the articles of faith: but that was private to some men, as Brentius and others, and was not received of whole churches: and whereas the men were godly & learned, and we are uncertain with what affection, and how long they held this error, we rest our selves in condemning it, leaving the persons to God. Again Popish Transubstantiation, and Lutherian Consubstantiation, are both against the trueth of the manhood of Christ; yet with great difference. Transubstantiation is slat against an article of faith: