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 ...…

2. But are there no Saints that go to Common-Prayer? Why do not you distinguish Saints? I hope there are many times more Saints (and wiser), that separate not, than that do: And are not you as faulty for saying, They sin, as they for saying, You sin, if their cause be true? This soundeth as too much of a Sect.

3. The Truth is, Repentance is so hard a work, that I see both Extremes fly from it on a proud pretence of Constancy, and that they may not confess that they have erred. It was the grand Argument that bore down me and others, when we pleaded with some Bishops to have prevented our Divisions by some alterations [Oh then it will be thought that we erred, and gave cause for old complaints]: And now we must none of us hold Communion with the Parish-Churches, lest some Saints that separate, should be rendered False Witnesses of God, and blamable. But were not the old Nonconformists and Conformists, as real Saints as the old Separatists, and a Thousand for One? And do not you now make them all as False Witnesses? If really you have fathered any Love-killing, dividing Error on God, repent of it, and do not justify it, for fear of being thought blamable. This is it that keepeth England in confusion, and threateneth worse: Neither of the Extremes that have caused our calamities, are humbled, nor can endure a motion to repent; but Overturners justify their former and their present love-destroying ways. The Lord give England Repentance unto Life: And the Lord help me to see all my Errors, and to repent the more, because I see that proud Nature is so much against it.

3. The Truth is, Repentance is so hard a work, that I see both Extreams fly from it on a proud pretence of Constancy, and that they may not confess that they have erred. It was the grand Argument that bore down me and others, when we pleaded with some Bishops to have prevented our Divisions by some alterations [Oh then it will be thought that we erred, and gave cause for old complaints]: And now we must none of us hold Communion with the Parish-Churches, lest some Saints that separate, should be rendered False Witnesses of God, and blamable. But were not the old Nonconformists and Conformists, as real Saints as the old Separatists, and a Thousand for One? And do not you now make them all as False Witnesses? If really you have fathered any Love-killing, dividing Error on God, repent of it, and do not justifie it, for fear of being thought blamable. This is it that keepeth England in confusion, and threatneth worse: Neither of the Extreams that have caused our calamities, are humbled, nor can endure a motion to repent; but Overturners justifie their former and their present love-destroying ways. The Lord give England Repentance unto Life: And the Lord help me to see all my Errors, and to repent the more, because I see that proud Nature is so much against it.