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, I have said enough, if enough will serve, to prove that the Unity of the Church must not be laid on things Indifferent, nor upon low or doubtful points; but it must be a Unity in the Spirit of Sanctification. It is in the few, the great, the certain and the Necessary points, that we must all agree in if ever we will agree, and compassionately tolerate the differences that are tolerable.

If after all this, there be any so Proud, and selfish, and ungodly, and unmerciful, that they will set up their own Conceits and Wills against the plain Commands of ⟨p. 378⟩God, the long and sad experience of the world, and against the Peace of their Brethren, and the Unity of the Church, and will have no Agreement unless all others will be conformed to their Wills, I shall now say no more to such, but that These are not the sons of Peace, nor the living compassionate members of the Church, but self-idolizers that God is engaged to pull down: And it is not by such as these that the Church must be healed and repaired: But it is by them that are sensible of their own infirmities, and compassionate to others, that are of a Christian Catholic Spirit, and have Catholic Principles and Affections, and see such a beauty in the Image of Christ, that they can heartily Love a gracious person, notwithstanding his many tolerable infirmities, and think themselves more ⟨p. 379⟩unworthy to be tolerated by others, then such as I have described to be tolerated by them.

If after all this, there be any so Proud, and selfish, and ungodly, and unmerciful, that they will set up their own Conceits and Wills against the plain Commands of ⟨p. 378⟩God, the long and sad experience of the world, and against the Peace of their Brethren, and the Unity of the Church, and will have no Agreement unless all others will be conformed to their Wills, I shall now say no more to such, but that These are not the sons of Peace, nor the living compassionate members of the Church, but self-idolizers that God is engaged to pull down: And it is not by such as these that the Church must be healed and repaired: But it is by them that are sensible of their own infirmities, and compassionate to others, that are of a Christian Catholick Spirit, and have Catholick Principles and Affections, and see such a beauty in the Image of Christ, that they can heartily Love a gracious person, notwithstanding his many tolerable infirmities, and think themselves more