The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their…

42. The Universal Church hath long had Unity upon the terms of Baptism and the Creed and Scriptures, without any other subscriptions, Oaths or other Professions made necessary to communion. But it never had Union upon such additional terms, of new professions, subscriptions and Oaths, as most Churches now impose and require. When they departed from the ancient simplicity, and the primitive terms, they departed from Unity and concord, and so continue divided to this day.

42. The Universal Church hath long had Vnity upon the terms of Baptism and the Creed and Scriptures, without any other subscriptions, Oaths or other Professions made necessary to communion. But it never had Union upon such additional terms, of new professions, subscriptions and Oaths, as most Churches now impose and require. When they departed from the ancient simplicity, and the primitive terms, they departed from Unity and concord, and so continue divided to this day.

43. As for the indifferent modes and circumstances of worship, some most of the Churches voluntarily agreed in; some they differed in; some the particular Bishops made to be the Order of their own particular Churches, (which were for 200 or 300 years no more populous than our Parishes), and this not against the peoples will; But none of them were imposed by any Bishops upon other Churches, nor made necessary to Communion against the wills and consciences of the Presbyters and people, nor Ministers silenced nor people excommunicated for refusing them; But they were used as things Indifferent with mutual charity, till the decay of Charity and the entrance of Pride and Church Tyranny turned things indifferent into those engines of divisions, which have wracked, and dismembered and torn in pieces the Churches through the world unto this day.

43. As for the indifferent modes and circumstances of worship, some most of the Churches voluntarily agreed in; some they differed in; some the particular Bishops made to be the Order of their own particuar Churches, (which were for 200 or 300 years no more populous than our Parishes), and this not against the peoples will; But none of them were imposed by any Bishops upon other Churches, nor made necessary to Communion against the wills and consciences of the Presbyters and people, nor Ministers silenced nor people excommunicated for refusing them; But they were used as things Indifferent with mutual charity, till the decay of Charity and the entrance of Pride and Church Tyranny turned things indifferent into those engines of divisions, which have wracked, and dismembred and torn in pieces the Churches through the world unto this day.