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…

You see than what it is that standeth in our way, to hinder us from turning back to you. But what danger would you be in if you should turn to us? Would it hurt or hazard you to forsake your sensual ungodly lives? Is there any danger in turning to God, and living an holy heavenly life? What is the danger? Forsooth you may lose your estates or lives! A great matter indeed in comparison of eternal life: And must you not lose them shortly whether you will or not? And are they not in the pow•r of God? and cannot he preserve them if he please? and if it be good for them, he is liker to do it for his own, then for his enemies! But indeed he hath told you himself, that he that will save his life shall lose it, and he that loseth ⟨p. 122⟩his life for his sake, shall find it, even in life everlasting, Mat. 16.25. & 10.39. And yet as the world now goeth in England, through the mercy of God, your lives are in no danger. It is but the scorn of ignorant miserable men that you must endure. And will you stick at this, in the cause of God and your salvation? Nay indeed you are in most dreadful danger every day and night, and hour, till you forsake your former fleshly lives, and turn to Christ! You are all the while even within a step of death and hell, till you are Converted and made an holy people; It is but one stroke of death to put an end to your lives and hopes, and you are gone for ever. So that you have nothing to lose, but an Heaven to gain, if you join with the godly. There is no danger can come to to you by turning, unless it be the loss of your sins; and that is a loss ⟨p. 123⟩no more to be f•ared, then a man should fear to lose the plague, or pox, or leprosy that hath it.

You see than what it is that standeth in our way, to hinder us from turning back to you. But what dang•r would you be in if you should turn to us? Would it hurt or hazzard you to forsake your sensual ungodly lives? Is there any danger in turning to God, and living an holy heavenly life? What is the danger? Forsooth you may lose your estats or lives! A great matter indeed in comparison of eternal life: And must you not lose them shortly whether you will or not? And are they not in the powr of God? and cannot he prsrve thm if he please? and if it be good for them, he is liker to do it for his own, then for his enemies! But indeed he hath told you himself, that he tht will save his life shall lose it, and he that loseth