- - (140) ' though· of different Forms, As .we-are Chrifts, [9 they 11re Chrtfts.Ofall the fub-di viuons of Protejta-nts,;thac ..are conGderable amongfl: us, there~s no party, the union with which makes us, or the feparation from wh1ch nnn1akes us, Chrifiians. Wc had need to have more to fhew for olu· Chriftianitie, than that we are ·presbyrerians,Independents, Anabaptijts, Epifcopal, ·or Eraftians; and the Devil nndt have more to prove us no Chifiians,than this,that we are in union with either of ttlefe, or in feparation fron1 them. · ' , 5· ·In mattet:s circumftantial, be not over hafiy in fiamping a Jur Di11inum on things difputable_and 1 doubrful:Put uo more weight, nor a greater neceifi· , · ~ie,on any thing,than God bath evidentlie put on it; and fpend no nlpre o,fyour zeal abouti{~than is proportionable to its weight and evidence. ' ~ 6. , Allow for the itni>erfe8: fiate the Church is in, \Ve know but in part i and till that which is pc: rfecr is come, and that which is perfeCt is done away, W8 n1uft be~r with one another, if in any things we be orherwife minded. , 7· Stretch not your -Authoritie beyond. your Line, ta~e not too much upon you: Think not to'bring all others, in everie [hing, toyour Standard ; impofe not your confciences~ · as a Law upon others. 8· Ptit not confcience to the ill office of being a meer Mak,.e-batt, catch not up e. very No: ion,· and prefcri~lie charge it upon ronfcience, ~s that wh-ich fllUfl: p~ main~~iQ~dlt49tlgQ to the.gr~ateft prejudice \ Qf ' '
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