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

§. 6. These being not doubtful conjectures but certain Prognostics, the remedy must be suited to the Patients capacity.

§. 6. These being not doubtful conjectures but certain Prognosticks, the remedy must be suited to the Patients capacity.

And I. Necessary Essentials all Christians are and must be agreed in: But unnecessary things such as I have described are never like to be commonly united in, nor is it necessary that they should: It seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to the Apostles to impose nothing on the Church, but Necessary things, Act. 15. It was the deceivers and false Teachers which would have done otherwise: Against whom St. Paul doth copiously and zealously dispute, in ⟨p. 139⟩his Epistles to the Romans, Corinthians, Galatians, Colossians, &c. To pretend that as necessary which is not so, or to command that as necessary and causelessly to make it necessary which is not so in it self, and which we may easily know will never be so judged of, nor received by all, is but to rack and tear the Church, and do mischief for an unnecessary thing.

And I. Necessary Essentials all Christians are and must be agreed in: But unnecessary things such as I have described are never like to be commonly united in, nor is it necessary that they should: It seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to the Apostles to impose nothing on the Church, but Necessary things, Act. 15. It was the deceivers and false Teachers which would have done otherwise: Against whom St. Paul doth copiously and zealously dispute, in ⟨p. 139⟩his Epistles to the Romans, Corinthians, Galatians, Colossians, &c. To pretend that as necessary which is not so, or to command that as necessary and causelesly to make it necessary which is not so in it self, and which we may easily know will never be so judged of, nor received by all, is but to rack and tear the Church, and do mischief for an unnecessary thing.