The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter…

And when after you Argue sometimes from the worth of the Persons to the goodness of the Office, and sometime from the old Episcopacy, to the English Diocesan Prelacy; you do but lose your words as to us.

And I could wish you would have left out your medium of multitudes of Protestants that would turn Papists, if the Papists could prove as much for them of Antiquity and Universality, as the English Diocesan Prelacy can: When I consider how in the same Empire they grew up together, I would not have you be the Man that should Dispute with a Papist, who undertaketh to prove the Roman Primacy as ancient as our Species of Diocesan Prelacy described in the Covenant, and to be acknowledged then by as many. I say not that they can prove it: But I had rather you laid not so much upon it.

You equivocate when you say, All sides are for Bishops: You will have few assenters when you say, That Episcopacy, Presbytery, and Independency, are not three forms of Church-Government, as three is contrary to Unity (viz. of such Form: And when you say, Extirpate one ⟨p. 98⟩and extirpate all (the Forms) because Godliness is the same in all. Are not Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy, three Forms, contrary to unity of Form; though Humanity, Piety, and Regiment, be the same in all? Do they that extirpate Presbytery, or Democracy, extirpate all? But why should I trouble the Reader, or you, by any further opening of your mistakes in a Case that I am not concerned in, and is none of our Controversy?

You equivocate when you say, All sides are for Bishops: You will have few assenters when you say, That Episcopacy, Presbytery, and Independancy, are not three forms of Church-Government, as three is contrary to Unity (viz. of such Form: And when you say, Extirpate one