Sacrilegious desertion of the holy ministry rebuked, and tolerated preaching of the gospel vindicated,…Sacrilegious desertion of the holy ministery rebuked, and tolerated preaching of the gospel vindicated,…

If we are Non-Conformists, because we cannot comply with all that we think to be invented uncapable terms of Communion from others, why shall we make such engines to divide the Churches our selves, and do the very things which we condemn in others. Unteach them their expectations, that all the Church must be satisfied of the sincerity of each Communicant; or that the presence of the unworthy, who are admitted by their own false profession, or by the Ministers fault, doth make it unlawful to others there to communicate. The Book called, The Cure of Church Divisions will tell you more such dividing principles, which you must unteach them. The Ministers that have bred and cherished these, have bin our subverters, and are our shame: and such principles are the shame of too many well meaning honest people. Woe to the selfish Teachers, that for their personal interest, dare not contradict them, but cherish them into their dividing errors; when their eyes are opened, and they see their mistakes, they will be tempted to show their own dislike of them, by running as far on the extreme of formality; In a word, help to save ⟨p. 98⟩Religious people from being superstitious while they cry out against superstition; and make them know that a Religion which consisteth in our own modes and ways of worship, and in decrying other mens, may stand with all unmortified sin; and that the flesh is no more denied by sitting, than by kneeling, and that to say I am Godly because my gestures, and orders are more Scriptural than the Conformists, is a pitiful way for an Hypocrite to cheat his soul: and make them know that few things have hardened men against Religion, and made Non-Conformists a scorn instead of being helpers of mens souls, so much as to see that many place their Religion in superstitions of their own, Touch not, taste not, handle not; and make it piety to avoid that as sin, which is no sin: and then men judge of all the rest by this.

If we are Non-Conformists, because we cannot comply with all that we think to be invented uncapable terms of Communion from others, why shall we make such engines to divide the Churches our selves, and do the very things which we condemn in others. Unteach them their expectations, that all the Church must be satisfied of the sincerity of each Communicant; or that the presence of the unworthy, who are admitted by their own false profession, or by the Ministers fault, doth make it unlawfull to others there to communicate. The Book called, The Cure of Church Divisions will tell you more such dividing principles, which you must unteach them. The Ministers that have bred and cherished these, have bin our subverters, and are our shame: and such principles are the shame of too many well meaning honest people. Woe to the selfish Teachers, that for their personal interest, dare not contradict them, but cherish them into their dividing errours; when their eyes are opened, and they see their mistakes, they will be tempted to shew their own dislike of them, by running as far on the extreame of formality; In a word, help to save