Full and easy satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…Full and easie satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…

and the Papists set in and tell them, [All these are branches broken off from the true Vine and withered; This it is to depart from the Catholic Church; when they are once gone thence, there is no stop or consistence, till they crumble all to dust and atoms: You must become Roman Catholics, or go mad: You see ⟨p. 179⟩to what confusion all others tend: If you once leave our Church, you will never know where to settle▪ Which Sect will you be of? If an Independent, why not an Anabaptist? If an Anabaptist, why not an Antinomian? How will you ever know which one of all these is in the right]? All this is easily answered by a man of understanding; But to the ignorant Vulgar, it seemeth unanswerable. And alas, how many have given them this scandal? Woe be to some by whom offence cometh. 6. But the Contentions of our Clergy advantage them more than the divisions of the people: when we are of many interests, and many parties, and proceed to make each other contemptible and odious: especially when we come to hinder each other from the work of our Ministry. A house and Kingdom divided cannot stand: Christ tells us that the Devil himself is not so foolish, as to divide his Kingdom. All our consent and best endeavour is too little to save mens souls from sin and error: And when one part is cast by, and each part by contention hindereth the other: the Papists have the far easier work. When one part are not to come within five miles of Cities or Corporations, where Papists are, and those that may come near them are too few, and many too indisposed, or negligent in resisting them; so that we are all overdone by their Priests in constant diligence, (especially with the Greater rank of men, with whom one part of our Ministers, have almost as ⟨p. 180⟩little inclination as opportunity to converse,) no wonder if the Roman work go on. 7. And, alas, how great advantage have they made of our late calamitous Civil Wars, and manifold scandalous Rebellions?

and the Papists set in and tell them, [All these are branches broken off from the true Vine and withered; This it is to depart from the Catholick Church; when they are once gone thence, there is no stop or consistence, till they crumble all to dust and atomes: You must become Roman Catholicks, or go mad: You see ⟨p. 179⟩