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 ...…

All these on both sides are so great inconveniences, that tho both Formalists and Fanatics have derided me for it, I have formerly said, and still say, That I believe that the best way to avoid both sorts of Evils is, To have meet set Forms, which shall be owned by the Church, as their professed desires, not being so long, as to take up too much time from freer Prayer, much less to forbid it; which Calvin wisely ordered for France and Geneva.

All these on both sides are so great inconveniences, that tho both Formalists and Fanaticks have derided me for it, I have formerly said, and still say, That I believe that the best way to avoid both sorts of Evils is, To have meet set Forms, which shall be owned by the Church, as their professed desires, not being so long, as to take up too much time from freer Prayer, much less to forbid it; which Calvin wisely ordered for France and Geneva.

And now as you have Historically told us the ill Consequences of a Liturgy, I shall first tell you, It is a Mistake: None of these arise from a sound Liturgy, but from the using that alone, and not using also free Prayer with it: And next, I shall add some more of the History of Separation from Churches that have Liturgies, tho it be as displeasing to me, as it is necessary to the People.

And now as you have Historically told us the ill Consequences of a Lturgy, I shall first tell you, It is a Mistake: None of these arise from a sound Liturgy, but from the using that alone, and not using also free Prayer with it: And next, I shall add some more of the History of Separation from Churches that have Liturgies, tho it be as displeasing to me, as it is necessary to the People.

I will pass by the Histories of Muncer and Munster, and of David George in Holland, and of Henry Nicols, and the Familists, which were the Off-spring of Separation: And the sad Conflicts which they had against the sober Nonconformists; and their sad Divisions among themselves in Holland, and how many of them went further to Anabaptistry, and more; when Brown their Leader here, turned Conformist. It is only what I