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5. In order to the promoting of this National Concord in Religion, I have still resolved to conform to all the National Laws and Orders about Religion, which corrupt it not, nor command any sinful thing.

6. Tho I renounce all Foreign Jurisdiction, Monarchical or Aristocratical, and usurpation of an Universal Government over all the Christian World (which hath no civil or religious Universal Lawgiver or Judg but Christ, neither Monarch nor Senate being capable of it), yet I much more value the concord of the Universal Church, than of one Nation: And do more abhor doing any thing which is a sinful separation, or discord from the Church Universal: And I take the unchurching of the Universal Church to be a denying or deposing Christ.

6. Tho I renounce all Forreign Jurisdiction, Monarchical or Aristocratical, and usurpation of an Universal Government over all the Christian World (which hath no civil or religious Universal Lawgiver or Judg but Christ, neither Monarch nor Senate being capable of it), yet I much more value the concord of the Universal Church, than of one Nation: And do more abhor doing any thing which is a sinful separation, or discord from the Church Universal: And I take the unchurching of the Univer•al Church to be a denying or deposing Christ.

7. All Christians must be known to be Christ's Disciples by loving one another as themselves: And love judgeth no evil till constrained.