The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness…

And indeed the first word in the Lords prayer [Our Father] teacheth us the same lesson, How needful a qualification Love and Unity are to all that will come to God in prayer: He that teacheth us that to Love our neighbour as our selves is the second summary Commandment, and even like to the first, which is Love to God (for it is Loving God in his Likeness on his works) doth here call us in all our prayers to express it, by Praying for our brethren as for our selves. O that men of wrath and wrangling were truly sensible what affections should be expressed by that word [OUR FATHER], and with what a heart men should say [GIVE US] and [FORGIVE US] and how far [US] must extend beyond [ME] and beyond [OUR PARTY] or [our side] or [our Church] in the dividers sense. I tell you if you will be welcome to God in your prayers or any other religious services, you must come as in Union with Christ and with his Universal Church: God will receive no one that cometh to him as alone and divided from the rest? As you must have Union with Christ the Head, so must you have with his Body: A divided member is no member, but a dead thing. Little think many ignorant persons of this, who think that the singularity and smallness of their sect or party is the necessary sign of their acceptance with God: Because they read [Fear not little flock:] As if [a little flock] must separate from Christs little flock, for fear of being too great? And as if his Flock which then was but a few hundreds must be no greater, when the Kingdoms of the world are become his Kingdoms? Yet such have there been of late among us, who first became (as they were called) Puritans, or Presbyterians when they saw them a small and suffering party. But when they prospered and multiplied, they ⟨p. 34⟩turned Independents or Separatists, thinking that the former were too many to be the true Church. And on the same reason when the Independents prospered they turned Anabaptists; And when they prospered, they turned Quakers, thinking that unless it were a small and suffering party it could not be the Little flock of Christ. As if he that is called The Saviour of the world, would take it for his honour to be the Saviour only of a few Families or Villages, and his Kingdom must be as little as Bethlehem where he was born.

And indeed the first word in the Lords prayer [Our Father] teacheth us the same lesson, How needful a qualification Love and Vnity are to all that will come to God in prayer: He that teacheth us that to Love our neighbour as our selves is the second summary Commandment, and even like to the first, which is Love to God (for it is Loving God in his Likeness on his works) doth here call us in all our prayers to express it, by Praying for our brethren as for our selves. O that men of wrath and wrangling were truly sensible what affections should be expressed by that word [OVR FATHER], and with what a heart men should say [GIVE US] and [FORGIVE US] and how far [VS] must extend beyond [ME] and beyond [OUR PARTY] or [our side] or [our Church] in the dividers sense. I tell you if you will be welcome to God in your prayers or any other religious services, you must come as in Vnion with Christ and with his Universal Church: God will receive no one that cometh to him as alone and divided from the rest? As you must have Union with Christ the Head, so must you have with his Body: A divided member is no member, but a dead thing. Little think many ignorant persons of this, who think that the singularity and smallness of their sect or party is the necessary sign of their acceptance with God: Because they read [Fear not little flock:] As if [a little flock] must separate from Christs little flock, for fear of being too great? And as if his Flock which then was but a few hundreds must be no greater, when the Kingdoms of the world are become his Kingdoms? Yet such have there been of late among us, who first became (as they were called) Puritans, or Presbyterians when they saw them a small and suffering party. But when they prospered and multiplyed, they