The moderator

We shall say then, that which formerly hath been asserted; If such as are acknowledged to be godly and Orthodox Ministers ¹in this kingdom are begotten of the same heavenly Father, by the same Word of Truth, in the same true Church; and have the same sense of their relation unto Christ, and in all the chief Acts of their Religious profession have the same rules to walk by; then they have attained already unto that unity, which is full and satisfactory to make them acknowledge one another to be Brethren. But so it is, that they are thus be[…]ten, that they have this sense of their Relation to Christ, and ⟨p. 34⟩these Rules to walk by in their Religious profession. Therefore the Unity whereunto they have already attained is full and satisfactory, to make them acknowledge one another to be Brethren. To these three heads then the particular terms of their Unity are to be referred, viz. 1. To the doctrine of Truth, which is the seed of the heavenly Father begetting them to himself. 2. To the sense of their Relation unto Christ in the Church. 3. And to the Rules of their religious walking; that if in every one of these the Unity whereunto they have already attained be found fully satisfactory to oblige them to a mutual acknowledgement of Brotherhood; then the public profession thereof, may not any longer be held in unrighteousness, as it is done by many to the great dishonour of their Ministry, and of Christianity it self. For it is a very sad thing and extremely destructive to the honour of true Christianity, to see those men, that in all main things are fully agreed, and cannot be otherwise esteemed as to men, then truly sincere and godly in their walking, not only to² drive opposite designs and courses one to another in Religious matters, without just cause, but even hatefully, to seem willing to destroy one another only through want of charity in themselves, and for mere infirmities and incivilities in others, which the fundamental Laws and aims of Christianity oblige them to bear withal. And the more holy and heavenly these men seem to be in the ways wherein they agree with their Brethren; the more destructive and pernicious is the consequence of their failing, in this kind, unto the Brotherhood of Christianity;

Wee shall say then, that which formerly hath been asserted; If such as are acknowledged to bee godly and Orthodox Ministers