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 ...…

Of such Worship there are two sorts: One sort is made necessary, statedly, by God's commanding it in particular. To this no man must add the like, or from it diminish any thing so commanded, either pretending God's authority, or his own. The other sort is but the subordinate ordering of the former, and is but the manner of doing it. This God doth not institute in particular, but only give man a general Rule, how to choose it himself; which is, That all be done in love, and to edification, decently and in order.

Either this latter sort is to be called Worship, or not: If it be, then it falls under his opposition: If not, then, 1. He must give us a definition of Worship, which shall exclude it; and so Worship must be somewhat else than the direct or immediate acting or expressing honour to God: And then who knows what he meaneth by it? 2. And then when we plead for mens making none but this, he should to avoid deceit, confess that the Controversy is only of the Name (whether Modes and Circumstances of God's instituted Worship, may be called Worship), and not at all of the Thing (whether it be lawful or not): This had been like a Christian Teacher.

Either this latter sort is to be called Worship, or not: If it be, then it falls under his opposition: If not, then, 1. He must give us a definition of Worship, which shall exclude it; and so Worship must be somewhat else than the direct or immediate acting or expressing honour to God: And then who knows what he meaneth by it? 2. And then when we plead for mens making none but this, he should to avoid deceit, confess that the Controversie is only of the Name (whether Modes and Circumstances of God's instituted Worship, may be called Worship), and not at all of the Thing (whether it be lawful or not): This had been like a Christian Teacher.

Now I answer, 1. to his first Proposition: 1. Worship which is neither instituted particularly, nor in the general, appointing man how to choose it, is unlawful. 2. And to invent worship without God's allowance, contrary, or of the same kind, as if he had not done his part, is unlawful. 3. But for man to choose and use such worship as is but the right ordering of God's Institutions, is commanded by him, and a Duty; and therefore not unlawful.