Catholic communion defended against both extremes, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…Catholick communion defended against both extreams, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…

It will be said, That these were not all the then Nonconformists: I answer, It was the main Body of the London Ministers; and it was as many as would meet about it, when they were desired to come to Sion College, and after they Printed a Thanksgiving to the King for his Declaration; so that then they were not against all imposed Liturgies; so that the Imposition had no unmercifulness in it.

It will be said, That these were not all the then Nonconformists: I answer, It was the main Body of the London Ministers; and it was as many as would meet about it, when they were desired to come to Sion Colledge, and after they Printed a Thanksgiving to the King for his Declaration; so that then they were not against all imposed Liturgies; so that the Imposition had no unmercifulness in it.

20. The foreign Churches (in Holland, France, Germany, &c.) are so much used to pray in the same form of words, that if they were put to do all ex tempore, it would be lamentably done by most, even far worse than it is.

20. The forreign Churches (in Holland, France, Germany, &c.) are so much used to pray in the same form of words, that if they were put to do all ex tempore, it would be lamentably done by most, even far worse than it is.

21. I have formerly told the world, That many of the most noted Nonconformists in London, met and concluded for communicating in the Parish-Churches, about 1664. And two things done by the Conformists stopped them: One was a storm then arising against those that could not do it, which they feared to seem to countenance by their compliance: And Plague and F•re interrupting the purposes of some. The Oxford Act of Confinement made it unpracticable; because, to be seen in a Church would have cast them six Months in the Goal with Malefactors.