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…

And shall we thus continue a division that doth prognosticate our Everlasting division? Is there no Remedy for so great a misery, when yet our poor ungodly neighbours m•y heal it if they will? What if the Ministers of the several Parishes, should appoint one day of public Conference with all the people of their Parishes together, and desire all that are fit to speak, to debate the case, and give their Reasons, why they concur not in their hearts and lives with the holy diligent servants of the Lord? and let them he•r the Reasons why the godly dare not, and cannot come over to their negligent ungodly course? and so try who it is ⟨p. 25⟩long of among them, that they ar• not of One mind and way? what if the Ministers then urged it on them, to agree all before they parted, to unite on the terms which God will own, and all unanimously to take that course that shall be found most agreeable to his Word; and whoever doth bring the fullest proof that his course is best in reason, the rest should promise to join w•th him What if we call the people together, and bespeak them as Elijah did, 1 Kings •8.21. How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. [If a careless, ungodly, worldly, fleshly life be best, and most ⟨p. 26⟩please God, and will comfort you most at death and judgement, then hold on in the way that you are in, and never purpose hereafter to repent of it, but let us all become as sensual as you. But if it be only the life of faith and holiness, and seeking first the Kingdom and Righteousness of God that God, and Scripture, and reason will justify, and that will comfort the soul in the hour of extremity, and that you shall with a thousand times you had followed, (in everlasting misery, when wishing is too late) if now you continue to neglect it; doth not common reason then require, that we all now agree to go that way which all will desire ⟨p. 27⟩to be found in at the last?]

And shall we thus continue a division that doth prognosticate our Everlasting division? Is there no Remedy for so great a misery, when yet our poor ungodly neighbours my heal it if they will? What if the Ministers of the severall Parishes, should appoint one day of publick Conference with all the people of their Parishes together, and desire all tht are fit to speak, to debate the case, and give their Reasons, why they concur not in their hearts and lives with the holy diligent servants of the Lord? and let them her the Reasons why the godly dare not, and cannot come over to their negligent ungodly course? and so try who it is