Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and…

But what do you say to the other; If a man who you believe is godly, yet not being convinced of your way of Government, but rather thinks the Presbyterial Government to be the way of Christ; would you receive such a man into communion with you?

But what do you say to the other; If a man who you believe is godly, yet not being convinced of your way of Government, but rather thinks the Presbyteriall Government to be the way of Christ; would you receive such a man into communion with you?

If any godly man whose conscience is not satisfied in that way of Government,¹ yet is so cast by Providence as he cannot join with those Churches where there is that Government he thinks to be Christs; and because he is desirous to enjoy what ordinances of Christ he can, therefore tenders himself to one of these Congregational Churches: Such a man should be received to these Ordinances he sees to be Christs, if there be nothing else against him, but merely because after all due means, yet through weakness he cannot see Christs mind in some other ordinance. Christ doth not lay so much upon the ordinance of Government, as to exclude all his Saints all ⟨p. 71⟩their days from all other Church-ordinances, if through weakness they cannot be convinced of that.

If any godly man whose conscience is not satisfied in that way of Government,¹ yet is so cast by Providence as he cannot joyne with those Churches where there is that Government he thinks to be Christs; and because hee is desirous to enjoy what ordinances of Christ he can, therefore tenders himself to one of these Congregationall Churches: Such a man should be received to these Ordinances he sees to be Christs, if there be nothing else against him, but meerly because after all due means, yet through weaknesse he cannot see Christs minde in some other ordinance. Christ doth not lay so much upon the ordinance of Government, as to exclude all his Saints all