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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⟩did some of them read the Common-prayer, and the most of them judge i• lawful to jo[…] Or else Mr. Hildersham, Mr. Rich. Rogers, &c. would not write so earnestly to men to come to the beginning, and prefer it before all private duties: And Perkins was for kneeling at the Sacrament: And Mr. Baines his successor in his Letters writes for Communicating kneeling at the Sacrament, and answereth the objections.

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, Abassia, or among the Greeks, I would joyn in a much more defective form than our Liturgie, rather than in none. And that this is the judgement of many New-England Ministers, (to joyn with the English Liturgie 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