A Declaration of the faith and order owned and practiced in the Congregational churches…

Let Rome glory of the peace in, and obedience of her children, against the Reformed Churches for their divisions that ⟨image 9⟩occurred (especially in the first rearing of them) whilst we all know the causes of their dull and stupid peace to have been carnal interests, worldly correspondencies, and coalitions strengthened by gratifications of all sorts of men by that Religion, the principles of blind Devotion, Traditional Faith, Ecclesiastical Tyranny, by which she keeps her children in bondage to this day. We are also certain, that the very same prejudice that from hence they would cast upon the Reformed (if they were just) do lye as fully against those pure Churches raised up by the Apostles themselves in those first times: for as we have heard of their patience, sufferings, consolations, and the transcending gifts poured out, and graces shining in them, so we have heard complaints of their divisions too, of the forsakings of their Assemblies, ¹as the custom or manner of SOME was (which later were in that respect felones de se, and needed no other delivering up to Satan as their punishment, then what they executed upon themselves.) We read of the shipwreck also of Faith and a good Conscience, and overthrowings of the faith of SOME; and still but of some, not all, nor the most: which is one piece of an Apology the Apostle again and again inserts to future ages, and through mercy we have the same to make.

Let Rome glory of the peace in, and obedience of her children, against the Reformed Churches for their divisions that ⟨image 9⟩occurred (especially in the first rearing of them) whilest we all know the causes of their dull and stupid peace to have been carnal interests, worldly correspondencies, and coalitions strengthened by gratifications of all sorts of men by that Religion, the principles of blinde Devotion, Traditional Faith, Ecclesiastical Tyranny, by which she keeps her children in bondage to this day. We are also certain, that the very same prejudice that from hence they would cast upon the Reformed (if they were just) do lye as fully against those pure Churches raised up by the Apostles themselves in those first times: for as we have heard of their patience, sufferings, consolations, and the transcending gifts poured out, and graces shining in them, so we have heard complaints of their divisions too, of the forsakings of their Assemblies,