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And I take it for such a Crime against Christ to say, that almost all his Church is not His, but Satan's; as it would be against the King to say, that almost all his Kingdoms are none of his but his Enemies. I may say, that the Irish, the Highlanders, or Orcades, are the most ignorant barbarous part of his Dominions; but not that they are none. And a slander of almost all the Christian World, is a very great one.

And I take it for such a Crime against Christ to say, that almost all his Church is not His, but Satans; as it would be against the King to say, that almost all his Kingdoms are none of his but his Enemies. I may say, that the Irish, the Highlanders, or Orcades, are the most ignorant barbarous part of his Dominions; but not that they are none. And a slander of almost all the Christian World, is a very great one.

But to separate from our Parrish Churches upon a Cause that is Common to almost all the Christian World, is Virtually and Interpretatively to separate from almost all. And to separate because of the faultiness of the Liturgy, the Ministry (in many) or the people, is to separate on a cause common to almost all.

1. The recorded Liturgies of the several Sects of Christians in the World (in the Biblioth. Patrum, and elsewhere) show it evidently, that they are all far faultier than ours. All the Abassines, Coptics, Jacobites, Nestorians, Melchites, Maronites, the Armenians, Georgians, Circassians, Meugrelians, the Greeks, and Muscovites, have Liturgies far worse than ours: Let them that doubt of it, go to the Greek-Church in Soho-Fields. The Nestorian Liturgy is one of the soundest and best that I find recorded (which intimateth that they are not so bad as some make them.) The Papists Mass, I think we are agreed is far worse. And the Lutheran Protestants Images, Ceremonies, Consubstantiation, show that theirs is no better than ours.