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 ...…

5. Where the public Ministry and Worship are sound, but impose some unnecessary doubtful things, as conditions of Communion, in justice they bind themselves thereby to allow Voluntary Churches to such as take these terms to be sin.

5. Where the publick Ministry and Worship are sound, but impose some unnecessary doubtful things, as conditions of Communion, in justice they bind themselves thereby to allow Voluntary Churches to such as take these terms to be sin.

6. When the Ministry, and Church-Worship, and State, are sound, and the conditions lawful, and weakness maketh conscionable Christians think otherwise, there private Churches must be tolerated, but as Hospitals for the sick, under the care of the Magistrate, keeping peace.

The strife in England at this day, is chiefly about the choice of Pastors, in which good people will never be indifferent: And few that I have known, refuse audience and honour to able, godly, profitable Preachers that differ from them. We are not at all of different Religions, tho some say so, to the dishonour of the National Church, as if their Forms, their Cross and Surplice, and their New Oaths and Subscriptions, were their Religion, and so their Religion were Ceremony or Novelty.

The strife in England at this day, is chiefly about the choice of Pastors, in which good people will never be indifferent: And few that I have known, refuse audience and honour to able, godly, profitable Preachers that differ from them. We are not at all of different Rel•gions, tho some say so, to the dishonour of the National Church, as if their Forms, their Cross and Surplice, and their New Oaths and Subscriptions, were their Religion, and so their Religion were Ceremony or Novelty.