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

Answ. And the number of the ungodly that will say, swear, or do any thing for worldly respects; will increase by your mistaken way of suppressing them. 2. It is better that tolerated honest Christians erring in tolerable cases do increase, than that they be banished or destroyed, and a worldly Ministry thereby lift up, abhorred by the religious, and heading the malignant and profane against all serious piety.

Answ. And the number of the ungodly that will say, swear, or do any thing for worldly respects; will increase by your mistaken way of suppressing them. 2. It is better that tolerated honest Christians erring in tolerable cases do increase, than that they be banished or destroyed, and a worldly Ministry thereby lift up, abhorred by the religious, and heading the malignant and prophane against all serious piety.

3. Violence and Tyranny against good men for tolerable error, hath already increased that same error more than wiser means would have done, and hath introduced worse.

4. We have found where I lived (in Worcestershire and the neighbouring Counties, Warwickshire, Staffordshire and Shropshire) in the late times of liberty in Religion, that an unanimous, humble, ⟨p. 276⟩able, diligent Ministry frequently and lovingly consulting and all agreeing, did more effectually suppress heresy, error and schism, than violence ever did or would have done. The next Parish to me had, a grave, learned, sober Anabaptist, B. of D. that had great advantages; and yet almost all our flocks were kept from the infection: In my own Charge (a great Parish of many thousand souls) where I was above 14. years, we had no one separate assembly, nor one sectary that I remember, save two or three apostate Infidels (or Socinians) and two or three Papists. A faithful agreeing Ministry with the advantage of a good cause, we found sufficient to shame all the Sectaries, and frustrate most of their endeavours, and to keep the people unanimous and right.