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…

Well Sirs, in this much of our treaty I have laid the case plain and open before you, and showed you, that we cannot come over to you: It is not Possible, nor Honest, nor Safe; we cannot forsake an holy life without forsaking God, and our Redeemer, and our salvation, which no man that is a ⟨p. 134⟩man indeed, should desire us to do nor can we do it till we first forsake our understandings: But o• your side the case is otherwise▪ You may turn to God and an holy life, without any hurt or wrong to you at all▪ nay it is the only way to your felicity, and if you do it not, you are undone for ever: So that the case is past all controversy before you, that there is no way in the world to Unity, but by Consent in Piety? If half the Common-wealth turn Rebels, and so shall make a Division in the body, the way to Unite them is by the returning of the Rebels to their Allegiance, and not for the true and lawful subjects to turn all Rebels and join with them. For without the Head there cannot be a Union. So that if the world be still divided and disagreed, it is not long of the godly, but of the ungodly: And if you would have ⟨p. 135⟩an Agreement, its you that must yield, who cause the disagreement. You may do it, and must do it, or do worse; but the godly may not yield to you.

Well Sirs, in this much of our treaty I have layed the case plain and open before you, and shewed you, that we cannot come over to you: It is not Possible, nor Honest, nor Safe; we cannot forsake an holy life without forsaking God, and our Redeemer, and our salvation, which no man that is a ⟨p. 134⟩man indeed, should desire us to do nor can we do it till we first forsake our understandings: But o• your side the case is o•herwi•e▪ You may turn to God and an holy life, without any hurt or wrong to you at all▪ nay it is the only way to your felicity, and if you do it not, you are undone for ever: So that the case is past all controversie before you, that there is no way in the world to Unity, but by Consent in Piety? If half the Common-wealth turn Rebels, and so shall make a Division in the body, the way to Unite them is by the returning of the Rebels to their Allegiance, and not for the true and lawful subjects to turn all Rebels and joyn with them. For without the Head there cannot be a Union. So that if the world be still divided and disagreed, it is not long of the godly, but of the ungodly: And if you would have