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 ...…

18. All the Congregations of the Nonconformists in England, that I have heard (save one now broken) not counting such as Quakers, &c.) have used, and do use, stinted, imposed forms of Worship to this day, and therefore judg it not unlawful, merely as forms, or as imposed. 1. Parents teach their Children a form of words in Catechisms, in Prayers, in giving Thanks for their Meat; and impose these on them. 2 Ministers impose on the Assemblies, their own method and words in Prayer, which are a form to the people; yea, and a form which they know not, till they hear it, and have no time to examine it, while it floweth from the Speaker. And their Sermons are imposed forms of Doctrine; (sometimes written also, and read). 3. Few men that retain any Sobriety in Religion, are against the Creed, to be used as a form of Confession of Faith. 4. The Independents drew up at the Savour, about 1658 or 1659. a form of Confession of their Faith and Discipline. 5. They attempted (Dr. Owen, Mr. Nigh, Dr. Goodwin, Mr. Sid. Sampson, Dr. Cheynell, and others), by appointment of a Committee of Parliament, to have drawn up a Catalogue of Fundamentals, to have been imposed for consent on all that should be tolerated in the Land in Church-Worship: they are yet to be seen in Print. (But Arch-bishop Usher being chosen for one, and refusing, and I being by his consent substituted in his room, broke that attempt; finding that their Fundamentals were lamentably composed, and that Christianity was not an unknown thing, and that Baptism, the Creed, Lords Prayer, and Decalogue, were a far better Catalogue of Fundamentals than theirs). 6. We all constantly use an English form of Translation of the Scripture, where all the English words, the division of Chapters and Verses, are mans invention, imposed on all. 7. We all use constantly forms of Confession, Prayer, Thanksgiving, and Praise in the singing of Psalms; where, when Davids and the Jews Psalms are used, the Translation, (or rather Paraphrase) the rhyme or meters, and the tune, are humane and imposed: And the Separatists themselves make no question; but other Psalms, (such as that of Ambrose, &c.) more suited to the State of the Gospel Church, may be fitly used, as Paul requireth, which must be composed by man, and imposed on the Churches, or never unanimously used.

18. All the Congregations of the Nonconformists in England, that I have heard (save one now broken) not counting such as Quakers, &c.) have used, and do use, stinted, imposed forms of Worship to this day, and therefore judg it not unlawful, meerly as forms, or as imposed. 1. Parents teach their Children a form of words in Catechisms, in Prayers, in giving Thanks for their Meat; and impose these on them. 2 Ministers impose on the Assemblies, their own method and words in Prayer, which are a form to the people; yea, and a form which they know not, till they hear it, and have no time to examine it, while it floweth from the Speaker. And their Sermons are imposed forms of Doctrine; (sometimes written also, and read). 3. Few men that retain any Sobriety in Religion, are against the Creed, to be used as a form of Confession of Faith. 4. The Independents drew up at the Savor, about 1658 or 1659. a form of Confession of their Faith and Discipline. 5. They attempted (Dr. Owen, Mr. Nye, Dr. Goodwin, Mr. Sid. Sampson, Dr. Cheynell, and others), by appontment of a Committee of Parliament, to have drawn up a Catalogue of Fundamentals, to have been imposed for consent on all that should be tolerated in the Land in Church-Worship: they are yet to be seen in Print. (But Arch-bishop Usher being chosen for one, and refusing, and I being by his consent substituted in his room, broke that attempt; finding that their Fundamentals were lamentably composed, and that Christianity was not an unknown thing, and that Baptism, the Creed, Lords Prayer, and Decalogue, were a far better Catalogue of Fundamentals than theirs). 6. We all constantly use an English form of Translation of the Scripture, where all the English words, the division of Chapters and Verses, are mans invention, imposed on all. 7. We all use constantly forms of Confession, Prayer, Thanksgiving, and Praise in the singing of Psalms; where, when Davids and the Iews Psalms are used, the Translation, (or rather Paraphrase) the rhime or meters, and the tune, are humane and imposed: And the Separatists themselves make no question; but other Psalms, (such as that of Ambrose, &c.) more suted to the State of the Gospel Church, may be fitly used, as Paul requireth, which must be composed by man, and imposed on the Churches, or never unanimously used.