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

And how by all this the wicked and Infidels are hardened, the weak are scandalized, the Papists are encouraged to despise us all, and many turn to them, scandalized by our discord, sects are advantaged, the Church and Kingdom by divisions ⟨image 5⟩weakened, and the King denied the comfort which he might have in a loving, united and concordant people.

And how by all this the wicked and Infidels are hardened, the weak are scandalized, the Papists are encouraged to despise us all, and many turn to them, scandalized by our discord, sects are advantaged, the Church and Kingdome by divisions ⟨image 5⟩weakened, and the King denyed the comfort which he might have in a loving, united and concordant people.

I believe that you dislike all this as well as I: All the question hath been and still is, which is the true way of Cure. And one would think that 1. the nature of the thing, and 2. the experience of all the Christian world, 3. and our own new experience these seventeen or eighteen years, might resolve men of lower parts than ours! Is there no better way to the Churches concord, than that which must cast out either such men as you or I, and that so many? Can a wise Physician (a true Peace-maker) find out no remedy which may better avoid the foresaid evils? O what a loss had England in the removal of such healing men, as Bishop Usher, Hall, Davenant, Brownrig, &c. Far was I and am I from liking any former injury to such men, by Covenant or abuse. But it hath been ever the just misery of the persecutors of worthy men, to have the stone fly back on their own heads, and to be themselves undone by striving to undo others, while they first make, and then stir up a multitude of enemies for their own defence, who else would be friends and live in peace.

I believe that you dislike all this as well as I: All the question hath been and still is, which is the true way of Cure. And one would think that 1. the nature of the thing, and 2. the experience of all the Christian world, 3. and our own new experience these seventeen or eighteen years, might resolve men of lower parts than ours! Is there no better way to the Churches concord, than that which must cast out either such men as you or I, and that so many? Can a wise Physicion (a true Peace-maker) find out no remedy which may better avoid the foresaid evils? O what a loss had England in the removal of such healing men, as Bishop Vsher, Hall, Davenant, Brownrig, &c. Far was I and am I from liking any former injury to such men, by Covenant or abuse. But it hath been ever the just misery of the persecutors of worthy men, to have the stone fly back on their own heads, and to be themselves undone by striving to undo others, while they first make, and then stir up a multitude of enemies for their own defence, who else would be friends and live in peace.