Catholic unity, or, The only way to bring us all to be of one…Catholick vnity, or, The only way to bring us all to be of one…

But yet if all this will not serve turn, I will make a motion that none can gainsay that hath the face of a Christian. Let us first agree in all those points that Papists and Protestants, Calvinists and Lutherans, Arminians and Anabaptists, and Separatists, and all parties that deserve to be called Christians, are agreed in! What say you, is not this a reasonable motion! O happy you, and happy the places where you live, if you would but stand to it!

But yet if all this will not serve turn, I will make a motion that none can gainsay that hath the face of a Christian. Let us first agree in all those points that Papists and Protestants, Calvinists and Lutherans, Arminians and Anabaptists, and Seperatists, and all parties that deserve to be called Christians, are agreed in! What say you, is not this a reasonable motion! O happy you, and happy the places where you live, if you would but stand to it!

And let us consider of this motion first in the General state of our difference, and then in the particular parts of it!

Truly Sirs, the main difference ⟨p. 95⟩in this world is between the Godly and the Ungodly; and all other differences that are not parts of this, are nothing to this, being of lesser danger, and easier toleration or cure. The whole world is divided into two Armies: Christ is the Captain General of one, and the Saints only his true Soldiers, and the seeming Saints his seeming Soldiers: The Devil is the General of the other, and all the unregenerate or ungodly are his Soldiers. An enmity is put since the beginning between the seed of the woman and of the Serpent, Gen. 3.15. and there is no middle state, nor one man on earth that is not in one of these Armies. I come not to reconcile the Commanders, Christ and Satan; for they are unreconcilable; but to reconcile you to Christ, and draw you from a deceiver. I tell you, irs, this great difference between the holy