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 now Sirs, you have seen the only way of Unity opened to you: Its plain and past all doubt before you. If yet you will divide from God and his servants, and if yet you will be numbered with the stragglers or quarrellers, ⟨p. 306⟩do not say but Peace was opened and offered to you. Do not say, You could not have Peace, but that you would not. Do not say any more hereafter, that there were so many Religions and so many ways that you could not tell which to join with! Never more pretend the differences of the godly as a cloak for your ungodliness. I have opened the nakedness of such pretences. You shall not be able when your lives are scanned, to look God in the face with such an unreasonable impudent pretence. Your consciences and the world shall then be witnesses of your shame; that while you cried out of Sects and heresies, and were offended at the Divisions of the Church, it was your selves that were the cause of it: It was you and such as you that were the great Dividers; and that obstinately proceeded in your Divisions, ⟨p. 307⟩when the way of Peace was opened to you; and would not be United in the Spirit to Christ, nor would not Agree in Holiness with his Church, when you were acquainted that there was no other way to Peace. Would you but have joined in a firm and everlasting Covenant to God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, as your only Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier, as members of the Holy Catholic Church, and have lived in the Communion of the Saints, you should have received the Forgiveness of sins, the Resurrection of the just, and Everlasting Life: But in refusing, and obstinate refusing these, you refused all your hopes of Blessedness, and wilfully cast your selves on the wrath of God: and therefore must endure it for ever.

AND now Sirs, you have seen the only way of Unity opened to you: Its plain and past all doubt before you. If yet you will divide from God and his servants, and if yet you will be numbered with the straglers or quarrellers, ⟨p. 306⟩do not say but Peace was opened and offered to you. Do not say, You could not have Peace, but that you would not. Do not say any more hereafter, that there were so many Religions and so many waies that you could not tell which to joyn with! Never more pretend the differences of the godly as a cloak for your ungodliness. I have opened the nakedness of such pretences. You shall not be able when your lives are scan'd, to look God in the face with such an unreasonable impudent pretence. Your consciences and the world shall then be witnesses of your shame; that while you cryed out of Sects and heresies, and were offended at the Divisions of the Church, it was your selves that were the cause of it: It was you and such as you that were the great Dividers; and that obstinately proceeded in your Divisions,