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for our own parts as we think it uncharitable to forbid the use of Spectacles to them that have weak eyes, or of Crutches to them that have weak Limbs, and as uncharitable ⟨p. 93⟩to undo all that will not use them, whether they need them or not; so we can think no better of them, that will suffer none to use such Forms, that need them, or that will suffer none to pray but in the words of other mens prescribing, though they are at least, as able as the prescribers. And to conclude, we humbly crave that ancient customs may not be used against themselves, and us, and that you will not innovate, under the shelter of the name of Antiquity. Let those things be freely used among us that were so used in the purest Primitive times. Let Unity and Peace be laid on nothing, on which they laid them not; let diversity of Liturgy, and Ceremonies be allowed where they allowed it. May we but have Love and Peace on the Terms as the Ancient Church enjoyed them, we shall then hope we may yet escape the hands of uncharitable destroying zeal: we therefore humbly recommend to your observation the Concurrent testimony of the best Histories of the Church, concerning the diversity of Liturgy, Ceremonies, and modal observances; in the several Churches under one and the same civil Government: and how they then took it to be their duty to forbear each other in these matters, and how they made them not the test of their Communion, or Centre of their peace concerning the Observation of Easter it self, when other Holy-days, and Ceremonies were urged, were less stood upon, you have the judgement of Irenaeus, and the French Bishops in whose name he wrote in Eusob. Hist. Eccl. l. 5. 6. 23. Where they reprehend Victor for breaking peace with the Churches that differed about the day, and the antecedent time of Fasting, and tell him that the variety began, before their times, when yet they nevertheless retained Peace, and yet retain it, and the discord in their Fasting declared, or commended the concord of their Faith, that no man was rejected from Communion by Victors Predecessors on that account, but they gave them the Sacrament, and maintained Peace with them, and particularly Polycarp, and Anicetus held Communion in the Eucharist, notwithstanding this difference. Basil Epist. 63.

for our own parts as we think it uncharitable to forbid the use of Spectacles to them that have weak eyes, or of Crutches to them that have weak Limbs, and as uncharitable ⟨p. 93⟩