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 ...…

God commandeth us to do all things in Love, and Concord, and Order, to edification. This must needs reach to the undetermined circumstances. We cannot worship God publicly at all, but it must be in some words, in some gestures, in some time, in some place; nor profess our Faith, and Covenant-consent, but by some sign: and so of the rest. If you choose no one, when God hath tied us to none, but bid us choose to edification, we break his General Law. If you can prove that we choose amiss, the Fault will be, not that we choose, but that we choose not better.

God commandeth us to do all things in Love, and Concord, and Order, to edification. This must needs reach to the undetermined circumstances. We cannot worship God publickly at all, but it must be in some words, in some gestures, in some time, in some place; nor profess our Faith, and Covenant-consent, but by some sign: and so of the rest. If you choose no one, when God hath tied us to none, but bid us choose to edification, we break his General Law. If you can prove that we choose amiss, the Fault will be, not that we choose, but that we choose not better.

III. That is not unlawful which Christ and his Apostles did before us without blame, and belongeth also unto us. But such is the use of such Modes and Circumstances of God's instituted worship, which are left variable, and free to occasional choice, &c.

What Christ did, I shall speak more anon. Paul hath his [Not the Lord, but I]; signifying, that the thing was not determined by a Law, Rom. 14. He judgeth circumstantial differences such as should not break communion, when yet they that kept days, or kept them not; and they that did eat, or not eat, did it as to the Lord. And did he bid them not judg each other for idolatry? or say,