[ 434 ] ' Chap. HI. 1he.:_y are deceived u:ho are for the forefaicl Papul or Council-Jurifcliflirm, as if it wtre the WC!_Y of Vnity or (atholicifm. \ ' § I.l Doubt not but the dd1reablenefs ofUniverfal Concord is it which draweth many honell well-meaning men into rhe efteem ·of the IJapal or Conciliar- Jurifdietion. All things have · a tendency to Aggregation or Unity as PerfeCtion ; and norhing more than Chriftian Love. This held fuchgood men of old as Bernard, Gerfcn, &c. from ' favouring the Reformers, thinking that the Papacy r \Vas necellir-y to Unity: This.kept fuch asEraf mus and Cajfander from foriaking them: And this turned vVicelim, Grotivu and o'thers to them: And nodoubt but this inclineth many in England to , the French kind of Church-Government, and to approve,and fqHow Grotim. But they quite crofs their own defires. ~ · §, 2. Catholicifm .or Vniverfal Concord confifi– eth in that which all the Chri!lian Church is COil- . 11ituted by, and in which all true Chrifiians have ftill agreed; ~dab omnibus ubiq~ & femper recep. tum fuit , as Vincent Lr:rinenfis fpeaketh. ·. The :Baptifmal Profeffion and Covenant expounded in the Creed, the Lord's Prayer as the Rul~ of our Defires, and·Hope, the Decalogue as the fun} of ~uty, ·with the Hi4or~ of. Chrill's I~C:arn~ion, L1fe, Death, Refurrechon and Doclrme m the GG!pel-\:vriters, the pra[tice of Baptifm, and the tord's Supper , with Church-Affemblies, for Tead1ing and Learning, Praying, and Praif!ng , God, and this under Elders called thus to Gmde their H1 ocks, iYi rh the belief of ~11 che rea ofche ' Sacred
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