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

15. We tell them of their weaknesses and faults as truly and plainly as Reproachers do, though we do it in way of Love and not of wrath and discouraging words; which even fathers are forbidden to use to their children, Eph. 6. 4. See Baxters Directions to weak Christians, and his Character of a sound Christian: and his Life of Faith.

16. If any of them grow Proud with their Ignorance, we deal more sharply and severely with them, as knowing the odious nature and tendency of that sin.

17. We take not men to be good because they are not conformable; nor do we disown any of the people for their conformity to your worship, Ceremonies and discipline, as if they were not the members of Christ; or were to be despised or censured by others. But instead of speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after us (as seducers do, Act. 20. 30.) we labour to speak the words of truth and soberness, and keep to the form of sound and ancient doctrine, (even that which semper, ubique & ab omnibus recepta est, as Lirinensis Characterizeth Catholic verity) and to avoid novelties and vain janglings and inflaming the hearers against Bishops, ⟨p. 192⟩Liturgy or Ceremonies, or against each other; But rebuke those that for such differences censure or despise each other, Rom. 14. 1, 2, 3. And exhort them to reverence and obedience to Governors, especially Loyalty to the King, to Love to all men, and to Unity with the whole Catholic Church, and to peace among themselves.