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 ...…

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.

§ 6. III. As to the Third Case, [For what Reasons I, and such other join in Worship and Communion with Parish-Churches? And whether our practice be a sin or a duty, or a thing indifferent?] For answer, I. I shall show what I am not pleading for. II. What it is that I hold and plead for, or defend. III. What are the Reasons of my practice. IV. Why it is that I now give out my Reasons.