366 The true terms of Unity. Church or ours be the purer and more exemplary? And whether it woald do Kngs and Kingdomes and the fools ofmen any dangerous hurt, tohave all Chrìfiians hold their Union and consrnr4nion jail. on the faine terms a.s they did under Peter and pawl and all the Apoflles ? Or at lead whether it . be worthy all the calamitous divifions in Chri- fiendòme, and the blood of the many hundred thoufands that have for confcience fake been flied, and the enduring of the outcries of the im- prifoned andbani(hed , and their prayers to hea- ven for deliverance from mens hands , and the leaving of fuch a name on record topofierity, as is dually left in Hitlory on the authors of fuch fufferings ; betides the prefent regret of mind, in the calamities of others, and the fad diIifons and deflruóion of Charity , which cometh here- upon ; I fay whether it be worth the fuffering of all this ( and O how final' a part is this) and all to keep our Churches from the primi- tive fmplicityg and from the fame way and Corn- munion which Peter and; Para! and the. Churches of their times , eíRablifhed and pra&ifed ? Shall we fpeak fo highly of Chtiff and his Apoftles and the facred Scriptures, and yet think all this blood and mifery, divifon and diflraaion, wor- thy to be endured, rather than our Union and Cormrnion ihouid beheld on the terms which they did appoint and pra&ife ? or rather than fuch terms fhould be tolerated among us ? I know tk hat is faid againft al! this ; But this is no place to arfwer all that is fald by fuch as cannot fee, now t anfwer themfelves in fo clear a cafe. DIRECT
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