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

18. Our Doctrine is published to the world so fully that no sober man can question us as a Party for it; but if any individual err, he must be named, and proved faulty. For our very Religion is nothing but the Law of Nature and the holy scriptures (which we profess to the Papists that would have more, and to all the world:) And we subscribe the Doctrine of the Church of England in the Articles, as our Explication of the sense of Scripture in those points: Though Gods word only be our Religion in the Rule, and we profess to disclaim all additions or diminutions, yet not all explications of our understanding the meaning of it; And therefore are still ready to give such explicatory Professions to any that suspect or accuse us of error. And so the Westminster Assembly did in their Confession, as all the Reformed Churches have done. But our Religion in the Divine Rule we take for infallible; but our explications we take for the corrigible words of fallible men; and as we will take no other mens for infallible, so we are ready to retract and correct whatever shall be proved faulty in our own.

18. Our Doctrine is published to the world so fully that no sober man can question us as a Party for it; but if any individual err, he must be named, and proved faulty. For our very Religion is nothing but the Law of Nature and the holy scriptures (which we profess to the Papists that would have more, and to all the world:) And we subscribe the Doctrine of the Church of England in the Articles, as our Explication of the sence of Scripture in those points: Though Gods word only be our Religion in the Rule, and we profess to disclam all additions or diminutions, yet not all explications of our understanding the meaning of it; And therefore are still ready to give such explicatory Professions to any that suspect or accuse us of error. And so the Westminster Assembly did in their Confession, as all the Resormed Churches have done. But our Religion in the Divine Rule we take for infallible; but our explications we take for the corrigible words of fallible men; and as we will take no other mens for infallible, so we are ready to retract and correct whatever shall be proved faulty in our own.

19. Much less can we boast that no Minister among us doth ever speak or write incongruously, or hath any imperfection or misapprehension of any point or method in Theology: we rather wish than hope for such perfection here. But besides the foresaid Confessions, our Professed Doctrine is known by many printed Catechisms and Treatises, such as Mr. Balls Cat. and Mr.