A moral prognostication I. what shall befall the churches on Earth, till their concord

And that he who is understandingly, a Sacramental-Covenanter with God the Father, Son, and Holy-Ghost, was ever ⟨p. 41⟩taken for a Visible Christian. And therefore, Baptism was called our Christening; and the Baptized taken for Christians, before they knew the Controversies of this Church, or that: And that the competent▪ explicit Understanding of the Creed, Lord's-Prayer, and Decalogue, was ever taken for a competent Understanding of the Sacramental-Covenant, and more. And that he that implicitly receiveth the commonly-received Canonical Scripture, as God's Word (though he understand no more than as followeth) and that explicitly understandeth the Creed, Lord's-Prayer, and Decalogue, and receiveth them, and consenteth to the Sacramental-Covenant, always was accounted, and is still to be accounted a Christian. On these Terms therefore, the Peace-makers will resolve to endeavour the Union of the Churches.

And that he who is understandingly, a Sacramental-Covanter with God the Father, Son, and Holy-Ghost, was ever ⟨p. 41⟩taken for a Visible Christian. And therefore, Baptism was called our Christening; and the Baptized taken for Christians, before they knew the Controversies of this Church, or that: And that the competent▪ explicite Understanding of the Creed, Lord's-Prayer, and Decalogue, was ever taken for a competent Understanding of the Sacramental-Covenant, and more. And that he that implicitely receiveth the commonly-received Canonical Scripture, as God's Word (though he understand no more than as followeth) and that explicitely understandeth the Creed, Lord's-Prayer, and Decalogue, and receiveth them, and consenteth to the Sacramental-Covenant, alwayes was accounted, and is still to be accounted a Christian. On these Terms therefore, the Peace-makers will resolve to endeavour the Union of the Churches.

10. Therefore, they will pare off, and cast away, (as the greatest Enemy to Unity) all those unnecessary Controversies, or Things doubtful, which Christians (yea, or Divines) were never agreed in; and which never were the happy and successful Means or Terms of any Extensive Concord; and which have long been tried, to be the great Occasions of all the Scruples, and Contentions, and Divisions, and woeful Consequents in the Churches. And they will once more say, [IT SEEMETH GOOD TO THE HOLY-GHOST, and to Us, TO LAY UPON YOU NO GREATER BURDEN, THAN THESE NECESSARY THINGS,