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…

1. I beseech you Christians but to live as Christians, in that holy Unity as your principles and profession do engage you to. Hath true Christianity and Holiness such abundance of advantages against division, and yet will you be guilty of it? Against all these bonds and healing principles and helps, will you be dividers? Doth it not grieve you and even break your hearts, to hear ungodly persons say that Professors are of so many minds and parties, that they know not which of them to follow? and ⟨p. 309⟩that we had never concord since you bore sway? O do not seek by your contentious ways, to persuade people that Holiness is a dividing thing, and that Religion doth but tend to set the world together by the ears. Is it not a precious mercy to us of this place, that we have among us but one Church, and one Religion, and and have not Church against Church, and Christian against Christian! I charge you from the Lord that you be thankful for this benefit; and that you look upon divided places, and compare their case with yours, that if ever dividers come amongst you, the sense of your felicity in this blessed Unity may cause you to reject them; and that you do not suffer any Delilah to rob you of your strength and glory. Were you but once here in pieces among your selves, what a scorn would you be ⟨p. 310⟩to all the ungodly? what sport would it be to them, to hear you disputing against one another, and reproaching and condemning one another, as bitterly as the wicked do reproach you all? Do you not pity those places where divisions have made Religion to be a scorn, and the tender Love and Unity of the Saints is turned into uncharitable censures and separations? Take warning then that you come not to the like. If you should, you would be as unexcusable as any People in the world, because you have tried and tasted so much of the sweetness and benefits of Unity as you have done: show men by your lives, that Holiness is the most certain way to Unity, as ever you desire either to propagate Holiness, or to have any evidence of it in your selves.

1. I beseech you Christians but to live as Christians, in that holy Unity as your principles and profession do engage you to. Hath true Christianity and Holiness such abundance of advantages against division, and yet will you be guilty of it? Against all these bonds and healing principles and helps, will you be dividers? Doth it not grieve you and even break your hearts, to hear ungodly persons say that Professors are of so many minds and partyes, that they know not which of them to follow? and