Worship owned viz. That God only is to be Worshipped no Creatures Saints or Angels That he is to be Worshipped only in and through Christ as our only Mediator and Advocate that he is to be Worshipped in Spirit truth to be Sanctifyed of them that come near unto him 3 As for Fundamental Duties and Points of Practice here is a Profession of Faith in Jesus Christ alone for Salvation of Repentance from dead works and love to Jesus Christ and to all that are his and obedience to the Moral Law of the Yen Commandements Here is a professed Renuntiation of the Devil the World and the flesh with all their sinful works and Lusts All these call for an ingenuous and candid acknowledgment How would our fore-Fathers that lived in former times of Popery have rejoyced to have seen such things in England We should bresse God that hath vouchased such a mercy to us Honour our Defender of the Faith under whose protection this Profession is made and shew more Reverence to the Church then many do who will pettishly slight all this because they have not all they would have Secondly we are next to consider those things that are disliked by such as scruple Communion which are especially reducible to three Heads 1. Government and Discipline which though it be various in the Reformed Churches yet notwithstanding they hold mutual Communion with each other as Sister-Churches and many particular wise and godly Members of those Churches hold Communion in the Ordinances of God administred in the Churches of different wayes occasionally when they reside amongst them 2. Forms of Prayers and Ceremonies concerning which some disallow all set and imposed forms whatsoever others only dislike the form by law established accounting it inconvenient disorderly and defective and rejecting the Ceremonies yet wise and sober persons generally Non-Conformists as well as Conformists reckon external forms and modes of Divine Service not of the Essentials of Worship but adjuncts thereunto belonging Ames Cas l. 4. c. 14 c. 17. Prestons daity Exercise E. G. The Essence of Prayer lies in lifting up true desires to God in the name of Christ for things agreeable to his will in the elevation of the heart or mind to God c. Words are but the outward clothing of these desires and holy affections or the Chariot wherein they mount up to Heaven And for the Ceremonies used in England they are utterly denied to be any parts of Worship and declares only circumstantial appendants thereunto see the Preface to the Common Prayer and Canons c. 3. Corruption in manners and that both in People and in Ministers which when found in the latter makes the offence far greater as when the Sons of Eli were wicked they made the offerings of the Lord to be abhorred These things premised We shall now offer our advice in this great Controversie and annex such Reasons thereto as shall evidence it both safe and profitable We lay it down in three particulars 1. To beware of a Total withdrawing from the publick Assemblies in the Church of England and the worship of God therein whilst the Fundamentals of Faith and essentials of Worship are therein maintained because you apprehend therein some corruptions defects additions or errors which are circumstantial This advice though it might be urged with manifold arguments yet the Brevity I intend in this Discourse requires me to give but a few 1. If you will make the Scripture your Rule herein you may see so clear a Beam of Light all along through the same witnessing hereunto That it is a wonder any should be found to Question this duty Consider the Prophets and people of God in the time of the Old Testament did they separate from the true Worship of God in the Jewish Church or teach any to do it when there were very great defects corruptions therein There was at some times a defect of some Solemn Ordinances for a long time together as Circumcision the Passeover c. Some Monuments of Idolatry remaining amongst them and the People many of them defiled therewith Very great corruptions of manners not only in the People but in the Priests as in Eli's Sons c. Yet whilst the true Worship of God was continued amongst them there 's neither precept or practice to be found of total withdrawing therefrom Indeed the godly Levites People did withdraw from the Idolatrous Worship of Jereboams Calves leaving their dwellings and going to Jerusalem 2 Chro. 11.14 16. but no mention is made of withdrawing from the true Worship of God for such causes as were before named About the time of our Saviour Christ and his Apostles the State of that Church was greatly corrupted by many degrees more then any sober person can judge the present Church in this Nation now to be The Interpreters of the Law had taken away the Key of knowledge and that little knowledge that remained was miserably corrupted not only with the Leaven of the Pharisees but with the damnable Heresie of the Sadducees The Worship of God much prophaned and the Temple polluted and made a Den of Theeves A multitude of Superstitious Ceremonies introduced that were a burden too heavy to bear The power of godliness subverted whilst small things were exactly minded the weighty things of the Law as Judgment and the love of God were neglected a general over spreading of sin not only amongst the Vulgar but the Priests themselves and that in their Ministration and calling as well as in their Lives c. Yet did not the Godly withdraw from the Communion of that Church for the same We read that Simeon Anna and Others continued in the Temple Worshipping God daily Holy Zachary forsook not his Priestly Office but Ministred in his course in the Temple And Christ himself was circumcised and presented to the Lord in the Temple with the accustomed Sacrifices offer'd for him according to the Law of Moses he kept the Passeover and other Feasts of that Church was frequently in the Temple and in the Synagogues with his Disciples allowed of the hearing of those that sate in Moses's Chair only gives caution against their Errours and bad lives sent divers to the Priests to Offer their accustomed Offâ—rings required in the Law Nor did he in the dayes of his flesh wholly forsake the Communion of that Church nor his Disciples after him untill the Jews did contradict and blaspheme the Truth obstinately refuse to owne the Lord Jesus for the Christ and persecute to death the Professors of the Name of Christ In the Churches of Corinth Galatia c. We read of great and dangerous Errors in Faith grievous pollutions in Worship sad miscarriages in Manners yet concerning withdrawing from these Churches we find not a word but many reprehensions of their Schisms and Divisions In the Churches of Asia there were several things they were blamed for as well as some things commended in them But no hints of Separation from
wisedom is it to make a good choice 4. Because else if one should happen on the true Religion he would never be True unto it unless he take it up on such a right choice as before was spoken of we cannot be Serious Christians nor through Christians but by halves only nor Constant holding out to the End without this right choice 1. Not serious Christians Such as take up a Religion they know not what and on grounds they know not why will be but sleighty and formal in it a little of outside profession they may have but the power of it will be wanting Thus the common sort of Christians that take not up Religion on a wise choice understanding what it is and discerning the verity and excellency of it but because it is professed in the countrey where they live injoyned by the Laws of the Land and commended by the example of Others whom they esteem wise and holy alack how formal and sleighty are they therein not considering the glory of the great God that made them and redeemed them is concerned therein and that the Salvation of their own souls depends on it Whereas such as make a wise choice out of knowledge and discerning serve God with all their heart and strength and soul they rest not in the former but labour in the power of godlinesse Religion is their main business in the World 2. Nor thorough Christians but only by the halves as Agrippa almost perswaded to be Christians They will follow Christ a little way and perform some of the out-side and easie parts of Religion but when they hear some hard sayings as the Capernaits or some difficult duties pressed on them that cross flesh and blood and worldly interest they will except them and say in this thing the Lord be merciful to me c. These are like the Scribe not farre from the Kingdome of Heaven but never shall come there like Herod that reform many things but not at all will pick and chuse where they please Oh that this were not the case of many called Christians And this because they understand not aright what the Christian Religion is and take it not upon good grounds therefore they fall short whereas he that understands what an holy Religion it is and what great duties it requires and casts up before hand the inconveniences losses andl sufferings he may meet with comparing them with the recompence of reward the far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory he will go through-stitch will follow God fully and will be altogether a Christian 3. Not Constant but turning away from it upon every Temptation Such are ever wavering and halting betwixt two as the Israelites of old betwixt Iehovah and Baal If heresie seducement and the power of delusions come amongst such how do they turn away from that Religion they have imbraced by companies and turn Runnagados or if the heat of persecution scorch them they wither away because they have no Root Mat 13. We have had too sad experience of this amongst the giddy unstable sort of Christians in our times when God had let loose errors and heresies amongst us to try who were sound and sincere and who not how many were carried away as with a flood And if Popery should prevail again or Mahometanism through the conquering Sword of the Turks one may tremble to think whither such ungrounded Christians may be carryed Whereas on the other hand the Christian that takes up his Religion on good grounds through a wise choice knowing what and in whom he hath believed wil through grace stand strongly as the House built upon the Rock Mat. 7. When the Winds blew and the Waves beat he stands The gates of Hell shall not prevail against such Therefore we see what a great point of wisdom it is for a man to make a wise choice of that Religion he takes up else he will not be true unto it he will not be a serious Christian nor a thorough nor a constant Christian and then as good be none at all It will nothing avail them unto Salvation to imbrace the true Religion no more then it did profite the Israelites of old to have the Temple of the Lord amongst them or the Philistims to have the Ark of the Covenant with them it will but increase their condemnation These considerations are sufficient without insisting upon any other to evidence the truth of our proposition and to commend to us this great duty viz. The wise chusing of that Religion we professe in the World that we mean to live and dye in and to venture our Eternal Salvation upon CHAP. IIII. Wherein the Practice of this Duty is insisted on and Directions given how to chuse the true Religion amongst so many as are in the World All other Religions being rejected The Christian Religion is evidenced to be the only true Religion WE are now come to the practicall part of our discourse to shew how this may be reduced into action that we have been treating on but in words hitherto let every one that God hath given the understanding of a man unto be induced to make a wise choice of that Religion he ventures his eternal Salvation upon This discourse is intended only for such as be resolved to be of some Religion and will not live as Atheists As for them that will not be of any Religion at all but live without God in the World only live to eat and drink and work and sleap and mind their sensual pleasures they degenerate from the Nature of Men and are even turned unto Beasts foolish are they and ignorant to use the Psalmists words Psal 73. and even in this point as Beasts as far below men as Nebuchadnezzar was when he did eat grasse as the Oxen and couched amongst the Beasts for such violate the very Law of Nature which hath taught all Nations however rude and barbarous to take up some profession of Religion They transgresse also the written Law of God which he hath given in his Word and will judge men by at the last day which requires solemn worship and service from the Sons of men They bring themselves directly under the curse or imprecation Jer. 10.25 Pour out thy fury upon the Heathen and upon the Families that call not on thy Name The wicked shall be turned into Hell with all the Nations that forget God Psalm 9.17 As they say to God now depart from us we will not know thy wayes so they shall hear God say to them shortly Depart from me ye cursed c. Nor do I speak to such base and low Spirits as take up their Religion on trust from others and pinne their Faith upon the sleeves of those to whom they have subjected their judgements and consciences upon account of any worldly or corrupt interest But to such noble Spirits as with the Bereans will take pains to fearch the Scriptures and use all Gods appointed means to inform themselves that they may
A GUIDE TO THE True Religion OR A DISCOURSE Directing to make a wise CHOICE of that Religion Men venture their Salvation upon Seasonable for these Times wherein there are such Diversities of Opinions and wayes of Religion To inform the Ignorant to resolve the Wavering and to confirm the Weak By I. C. M. A. of T. C. C. Josh 24.15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord Chuse you this day whom you will serve whether the Gods But as for me and my House we will serve the Lord. EDINBVRGH Printed by Andrew Anderson and are to be sold at his House on the North side of the Cross Anno 1669. A Premonition to the Reader shewing the occasion and intendment of the Discourse Courteous Reader THere is no good Christian but is ready upon all just occasions to express his sad resentment of the wofull Divisions and dangerous Errors wherewith the Churches of Christ in these Kingdoms have been for many years past and still are so distracted for notwithstanding that our civill Wars are through the mercy of God endid yet our Religious jars and rents are not healed Indeed how can any pious Soul consider the great dishonour done thereby to the Holy Name of God the reproach to the Christian Religion the great scandal to those sometimes famous Churches which are now hereby become infamous through the World yea the apparent ruine threatned by these things and not break out into sad lamentation for the same Surely this 〈◊〉 a Lamentaion and shall be for a Lamentation And although the serious consideration of those evils in order to the repairing and healing of them and the preventing the publick ruine threatned to the Church and State thereby belongeth to the wisedome and zeal of those that be in place of eminency and are vested with power and authority requisite thereunto yet Private Christians in a lower station and capacity cannot but have their eyes upon the sad influence those â—â—ings have upon their dearest Friends and Neighbours with whom they converse and in their behalf meditate upon some remedy for the same Certain it is that the malignant influence these things have on the common sort is very sad whilst gazing on those sad contesting matters of Religion Some continue meer Scepticks ever wavering and not knowing what way of Religion to chuse and so neglect to be of any Some are professed Atheists or profane Wretches Others be seduced into dangerous Errors as Popery Socinianism Quakerism c. Many ingage in contentions they know not why nor for what And the greatest part of Christians wofully stumbled in their Profession The intendment of these Papers is to propose some help against those evils and to guide and direct those that are apt to miscarry through occasion of the diversities of Opinions and wayes found a mongst us Wherein they are first excited to make a wise Choice of that Religion they venture their Eternal Salvation upon and are informed how to do it Indeavours are used to fix and establish them in the truth of the Christian Religion and to acquaint them with the great and Fundamental Doctrines and Duties threrof necessary unto Salvation which have been owned by all Christians and Churches in all places and ages and to perswade to believe and obey them as that whereupon their eternal safety depends Then our discourse descends to points of a secondary and inferior Nature that are controverted amongst wise and godly Christians and directions are laid down how to find out the right and safe way for Faith and practice in such things especially when we are necessitated to hold forth a profession of our selves therein Wherewith is shewed also what tendernesse and respect is to be used toward those that differ from us in those things whilst in the mean time we carry it at a greater distance with those that err fundementally and subvert the Christian Faith and Religion All which counsels being evidenced to be good and wholsome will manifestly declare Those to be the most approved and judicious Christians who under all those great changes and revolutions which have been amongst us of latter times have especially exercised their zeal for the maintaining of the Fundament all Doctrines of the Gospel and the practice and power of Godlinesse as also for the preserving the peace of the Church and love and union amongst Christians whilst in the mean time they have shewed greatest moderation and condescension towards those that differ in controverted Points of a lower Nature even to a degree of complyance also with the stream of the times in some things which seem in themselves less desireable and inconvenient provided in their Consciences they judge them not to be sinful if conducing to the furtherance of the Gospel the peace of the Churches and Salvation of Souls Indeed this will be judged by some rash and censorious Spirits to be Hypocrisie Time-serving er self-seeking and such persons may be branded for Temporizers Turn-coats or Apostates or what not but when things shall be considered in calmness and Sobriety Such will be found the greatest friends of Christ and the Christian Religion and such actions most consonant to Scripture commands and to the examples of the Saints recorded therein whereas such as are found departing from any Fundamental and generally confessed points of faith or Practice These imputations may be more warrantably charged upon them Reader Let these sad and wofull differences errours and debates provoke thee to examine the grounds thy profession is built upon to study more the verity and excellency of the Christian Religion and be better established therein to understand believe love and obey the great and necessary Principles thereof humbly to seek of God the discovery of his mind in things more dark and controverted and to exercise more Christian love and charity those that are not of the same perswasion or practice with thee therein And then thou wilt be secured from the danger of those evils yea they will prove advantagious to thy greatest good although intended by Satan for thy hurt To help thee herein is the intendment and designe of this discourse in order whereunto the blessing of the Lord is humbly implored to go along with the same THE CONTENTS OF The severall CHAPTERS CHAP. 1. REligion the grand concernment of Man in this World Great differences about it Necessity of a wise and deliberate chusing ones Religion A proposition laid down which is the Subject matter of the following Discourse Page 1. CHAP. 2. Shewing wherein this wise Chusing ones Religion stands and what Acts concurr thereunto Page 5. CHAP. 3. Considerations evidencing it a principal Point of wisdome for a Man to make a right Choice of that Religion he professes in the World and ventures his Eternal Salvation upon Page 13 CHAP. 4. Wherein the Practice of this Duty is insisted upon and Directions given how to chuse the true Religion amongst so many as are in the World All other Religions being
those Churches for those evils found in them So that the Scriptures give no countenance to total withdrawing from such Churches where many corruptions are whilst the essentials of Religion are preserved Some Scriptures iâ—deed are very impertinently alledged for this practice which may be cleared from the undeceiving of the weak in a few words such as 2 Cor. 6 14 15 16 17. Which speaks of separation from Infidels and Idolaters in their Idolatries and ungodly fellowships not of withdrawing from Christian Assemblies in the true Worship of God So also 1 Cor. 5.11 and 2 Thess 3.6 14. Which Scriptures shew it a duty to withdraw from private persons living in notorious scandalous sins for shaming the offendors and preserving the Churches but speak not a word of withdrawing from the true Worship of God in the publick Assemblies of the Church because of controversal practises yea for some real evils therein for this will tend to the destruction of the Church which is contrary to the end of all Church-censures being for Edification not for destruction 2 Cor 10.8 As for that Scripture Revel 18.3 Come out of Babylon c. It may warrant a withdrawing from the Idolatrous Worship of Rome and the Abominations of Popery from which we before shewed it 's the duty of every good Christian that loves his Salvation to depart but it 's grosly abused when it 's made to plead for Separation from any of the reformed Churches where through the mercy of God the Fundamentals of Faith and essentials of Worship are maintained so that we see the scriptures will not warrant such Separation 2. Or if you will Reverence the general suffrage of the Christian Church and of the most eminent Saints and Martyrs living therein ever since Christs time to us which surely however some slight yet there 's no smal weight in it else the Apostle would not plead 1 Cor. 11.16 We have no such custom nor the Churches of Christ The most eminent Servants of Christ in in all Ages have constantly held and practised Communion with those Churches where they lived although very often there were far greater corruptions therein then can be found this day amongst us as those that are acquainted with Antiquity know well and have ever blamed those that have left the Churches Communion for such causes as were above named witness the Censures past against the Novatians Donatists Audaeans c. As for our Separation from Rome our Protestant Divines plead the Fundamental errr found therein and gross Idolatries which they must necessarily communicate in if they withdraw not persecution c. and not lesser matters Did not those hinder they profess a readinesse to communicate with her and that they depart from her no further then she departs from Christ 3. Will you regard the judgment of the most eminent Divines of almost all perswasions amongst Protestants that have lived in this and the former Age speaking expresly concerning Communion with the Church of England Then know 1. That all forraign Divines of other Reformed Churches have approved of Communion with her and been ready on all occasions to give their fullest Testimony of their dislike of rigid Separation from her 2. All former Non-Conformists who did dissent in some smaller matters of Ceremonies c. desiring a forbearance as to their practice in those things yet have fully declared against Separation from the Church of England witness the writings of very many of them worthy a serious perusal at this day viz. Cartwright Hildersham Bradshaw Bayne Ball many Others and witness their practice formerly and at this day 3. Independents See Apol Narration of the five dissenting Brethren page 5.6 Who fully testify against the practice of the Brownists or rigid Separatists whose fatal miscarriages and Shipwrack they call Landmarks to forewarn of those Rocks and Shelves they ran upon And declare their sincere profession to God and the World that all that consciousness of the defilements they conceived to cleave to the true Worship of God in the Congregations of England or of the unwarranted power in Church-governours exercised therein did never work in them any other thought much less opinion but that Multitudes of the Parochial Congregations were the true Churches of Christ and the Ministry thereof a true Ministry much less did it ever enter into their hearts to judge them Anti-Christian for so they say they could not but see they should also condemn the Churches of Scotland Holland c. as no Churches which to imagine was an horrour to their thoughts Yea that they always professed and in those times when the Churches of England were the most either actually overspread with defilements or in the greatest danger thereof and when themselves had no hopes of ever visiting this Land in peace that they would hold a Communion with them as the Churches of Christ And yet they add further Besides this profession as a real Testimony some of them after they were actually in the Congregational way did Baptize their Children in the Parishional Congregations and occasionally admitted to the Lords Supper in their Churches some visiting them in their Exile upon that relation fellowship and Commembership they held in the Parish Churches in England It may be some will say they have more light now then those eminent Divines had in former times But they bewray herein too great ignorance and arrogance this point having been far more dissensed in former then in these present times in which the prejudice of most is such they have scarce considered what hath been said against their opinions 4. If you withdraw totally upon this Account you should then separate from all the Churches that now are or ever have been in the World for what Churches are so pure but they have some defects errors or corruptions For the Primitive Church even 1260 years agone and upwards there were as great corruptions in it as any you can finde here and greater also For the Churches of your own perswasion do you think them altogether perfect Wise and understanding men are able to finde some things amiss yea some of your selves have acknowledged all things are not according to their desire so as if you will bear with nothing but reject all parts of Communion because you cannot close in some things you must separate from them too and so turn Seekers or become Hermites or Anchorites and live alone and at length separate from your selves also because some things will appear blame-worthy in you also whither will this lead you 5. Have you no more love to and care of the publick solemn Worship of God then to cast off all publick Ordinances because you dislike some things in the Churches where they are administred It 's the greatest glory God hath in all the World to be solemnly Worshipped in the publick assemblies But if all should withdraw from them for such offence what publick worship should God have in this Nation seeing other perswasions are not permitted to meet nay
in their patrimony saith Bucer then in their opinion Besides they may undergo the heavy charge of Apostacy Ep. to Jo a Lasco and deserting the Truth and changing their Religion c. and this deterrs many from wayes of truth and Sobriety But it would be considered it 's no discharge for the wisest holyest and most learned Men to retract in some controversal opinions or practices Augustine who was esteemed the most learned of the Fathers Writes several Books of Retractations and Jerome to Ruffinus saith never blush Man to change thy opinion for neither you nor I nor any Person living are of so great Authority as to be ashamed to confess that they have Erred And as for the charge of Apostacy and changing your Religion in such a case as this is it 's a great mistake to affirm this for if you search the Scriptures Apostacy is a falling away from the main Fundamental confessed Doctrines of the Gospel and duties of godlyness into manifest heresie or wickednesse not the changing a mans judgment or practice in some points disputable amongst the godly and Orthodox saith Mr. Baxter in his Catholick Vnity Be it known to all the Papists in the World that our Religion is not changed at all our Worship is the same whether within Book or without our Prayers are the same for matter with those in the Common Prayer Book and if I shold one day use the Common Prayer Book and another day forbear it I should not change the Worship of God to pray is part of his Worship but whether it be in a Book or out of it is no part at all but a mode or circumstance which may be altered as occasion serveth Elsewhere the same learned and pious person sheweth what yielding in things lawful the Scripture recommendeth to us from the example of St. Paul Five Disp p. 488. when he circumcised Timothy Act 16.3 And when he took the men and purified himself with them in the Temple to signifie the accomplishment of the dayes of Purification c. Act. 21.26 27. So also from what he saith 1 Cor. 9.19 20. I am made all things to all men that I might by all means save some and this I do for the Gospels sake XI I add but one Rule of Caution more against a very common but dangerous mistake which is an occasion to many of running in to Error and Heresie as well as into Schism and Separation viz. Take heed of setting up your own apprehensions and conceits of the sense of Scriptures about controverted points as infallible Oracles that you trust so confidently to that you will indanger the Churches peace and your own safety for the maintaining of them where you have not all those necessary helps and means that are requisite to the finding out the minde of God therein Some that have their minds fore-stalled with an opinion or perswasion getting a Bible into their hands presently conceive what ever they meet withall to make for their opinion and begin to be more confident then an hundred wiser and more discerning persons dare to be who know their own darkness and ignorance and the mysteriousness of the things controverted though they have far greater evidence of Scripture and reason for them This carries men into such wilde fancies strange delusions sometimes as bring them under the just censure of Fanaticism a name which is too unjustly applyed to others more sober and pious Christians Though the Fundamental and necessary Doctrines and duties of Christianity are so plainly laid down in Scripture that the weakest Christians may understand them and therefore have much profit by holy and humble Meditation in the Word of God day and night yet Points controverted are oftentimes hidden from ordinary understandings that know not the Languages and proper Idioms of Scripture and customs of the Church and other advantages of learning that its ordinarily impossible they should find out the minde of God therein It 's a vain delusion to think that the Spirit that some pretend to more confidently then they have cause should discover all deep mysteries and obscure points of controversie to those that have but ordinary understandings and are wholly destitute of outward necessary means and hopes for the gaining knowledge thereby the Spirit of God teaches not by such immediate Enthusiasmes but by irradiating the minde and elevating the reason that is exercised in searching the Truth in all Gods appointed means and doth also help the weak to understand savourily all those plain and necessary Truths that tend to godlinesse and to conform their hearts and lives to the love and obedience of them It were more becoming weak Christians in matters disputable to consult with the Writings of able and learned Expositors that have al those advantages which themselves want and not to presume too much on their own understandings in such things which would be accounted unsufferable presumption in other Arts and Sciences and cannot be less in Divinity wherein the greatest mysteries are contained Other Rules of Caution might here be laid down which to avoid prolixity I forbear to enumerate recommending the serious consideration of these things to the sober and humble Christian as greatly conducing to keep him from the by-paths of unjust separation and here conclude with my hearty Prayer to God even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ that he would grant to the Professors of Christianity in all Nations both Rulers and People to minde more and to be more zealous for the great and Fundamental points of Faith and Worship necessary to Salvation and to contend less about things not in their own nature necessary that high impositions might not occasion violent oppositions nor these again produce further impositions But we may love one another unfainedly for the great things we are united in bear with one another mâ—re in things wherein difference is tolerable and all may seek the unity peace and welfare of the Church and the good of one another c. Then should Religion flourish the Gospel be advanced the fame of God be honoured the Souls of men edified and all may walk in the fear of God and comfort of the Holy Ghost unto which let every good Christian say Amen FINIS