Five disputations of church-government and worship

And yet these men are the greatest pretenders next the Romanists, to Catholicism, Unity, and Peace! Strange Catholics that cut off so great and excellent a part of the Catholic Church! And a sad kind of Unity and Peace which all must be banished from, that cannot unite in their Prelacy, though the Episcopacy which I plead for in the next Disputation they can own. The sum of their offer, is, that if all the Ministers not Ordained by Prelates, will confess themselves to be mere Lay-men, and no Ministers of Christ, and will be Ordained again by them, and if the Churches will confess themselves No Churches, and receive the essence of Churches from them, and the Sacrament and Church Assemblies to be Null, invalid, or unlawful till managed only by Prelatical Minister•, then they will have Peace and Communion ⟨image 99⟩with us, and not till then. And indeed must we buy your Communion so deer? As the Anabaptists do by us in the point of Baptism, so do these Recusants in the point of Ordination. You must be Baptized saith one party, for your Infant Baptism wat none. You must be Ordained saith the other sort, for your Ordination by Presbyters was none. The upshot is, We must be all of their Opinions and parties, before we can have their Communion, or to be reputed by them the Ministers and Churches of Christ. And on such kind of terms as these, we may have Unity with any Sect.

And yet these men are the greatest pretenders next the Romanists, to Catholicisme, Vnity, and Peace! Strange Catholicks that cut off so great and excellent a part of the Catholick Church! And a sad kind of Vnity and Peace which all must be banished from, that cannot unite in their Prelacy, though the Episcopacy which I plead for in the next Disputation they can own. The summ of their offer, is, that if all the Ministers not Ordained by Prelates, will confess themselves to be meer Lay-men, and no Ministers of Christ, and will be Ordained again by them, and if the Churches will confess themselves No Churches, and receive the essence of Churches from them, and the Sacrament and Churh Assemblies to be Null, invalid, or unlawfull till managed only by Prelatical Minister•, then they will have Peace and Communion ⟨image 99⟩with us, and not till then. And indeed must we buy your Communion so deer? As the Anabaptists do by us in the point of Baptism, so do these Recusants in the point of Ordination. You must be Baptized saith one party, for your Infant Baptism wat none. You must be Ordained saith the other sort, for your Ordination by Presbyters was none. The upshot is, We must be all of their Opinions and parties, before we can have their Communion, or to be reputed by them the Ministers and Churches of Christ. And on such kind of terms as these, we may have Vnity with any Sect.