A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and…

From all which I gather, that it is the Interest of the Congregational Churches themselves, as much as of any others, to join with us for the Principles of Christian Love, forbearance and Unity; and against the Principles of alienation and division: which is all that I am driving at.

From all which I gather, that it is the Interest of the Congregational Churches themselves, as much as of any others, to joyn with us for the Principles of Christian Love, forbearance and Unity; and against the Principles of alienation and division: which is all that I am driving at.

Obj. But the Churches of New-England would not join with a Church that should use the Common-prayer in that worship, nor in the Sacrament.

Obj. But the Churches of New-England would not joyn with a Church that should use the Common-prayer in that worship, nor in the Sacrament.

Answ. Nor I neither ordinarily if I were with them, and in their case; who have liberty to worship God in the most edifying and serious, and orderly manner that they can. And yet were I in Armenia, Abyssinia, or among the Greeks, I would join in a much more defective form than our Liturgy, rather than in none. And that this is the judgement of many New-England Ministers, (to join with the English Liturgy rather than have no Church-worship;) I have reason to conjecture, because in their foresaid Defence of the Synod, Pref. pag. 4, 5. They profess themselves to receive their principles not from the Separatists, but from the good old non-Conformists, to whom they adhere, naming Cartwright, Ames, Paraeus, Parker, Baines, Fox, Dearing, Greenham, &c. And I need not tell those that have read their writings, that the old non-Conformists ⟨p. 177⟩