The English nonconformity as under King Charles II and King James II truly stated…

M. I. With the Diocesans and their Officers, I hold mental Communion as a Christian and a Protestant in all the essentials of Christianity, and that Reformation which they own. II. With the Parish-Churches that have true Ministers, I hold mental Communion, as true particular Churches of Christ, (tho' faulty) and local Communion on just occasions. III. With the Parish-Assemblies that have intolerable Ministers, I hold mental Communion with the People as Christians, and will not refuse on just occasion to join with them in any good exercise as Lay-men. IV. With those Churches that have Ministers and Liturgy as ours that need reformation, I profess to join with them as Christians and Protestants that own all the Scriptures, and that promise to preach nothing as necessary to Salvation but what is contained in it, or may be proved by it: And when I Communicate with that Church it is as a Society so professing: But if their Sermons, Liturgy, or Lives have any faults, being not Idolatry, Heresy, Blasphemy, or such as rendereth their whole Worship, and assembling unacceptable to God, I disown Communion in any of those faults, tho' I be present. V. When I can have better, caeteris paribus, without greater hurt than good, I prefer it; and only use occasional ⟨p. 226⟩local Communion, with the Liturgy-Churches, as I would do with strangers were I in foreign lands. VI. Where I can have no better, without more hurt than good, I Communicate constantly and only with the Parish-Church where I live, as to Local-Communion.

M. I. With the Diocesans and their Officers, I hold mental Communion as a Christian and a Protestant in all the essentials of Christianity, and that Reformation which they own. II. With the Parish-Churches that have true Ministers, I hold mental Communion, as true particular Churches of Christ, (tho' faulty) and local Communion on just occasions. III. With the Parish-Assemblies that have intolerable Ministers, I hold mental Communion with the People as Christians, and will not refuse on just occasion to join with them in any good exercise as Lay-men. IV. With those Churches that have Ministers and Liturgy as ours that need reformation, I profess to join with them as Christians and Protestants that own all the Scriptures, and that promise to preach nothing as necessary to Salvation but what is contained in it, or may be proved by it: And when I Communicate with that Church it is as a Society so professing: But if their Sermons, Liturgy, or Lives have any faults, being not Idolatry, Heresy, Blasphemy, or such as rendreth their whole Worship, and assembling unacceptable to God, I disown Communion in any of those faults, tho' I be present. V. When I can have better, caeteris paribus, without greater hurt than good, I preferr it; and only use occasional