( 344) thzfame worJhip (inevery part, thoughhe talk of our no true worfhip ; as if Praying, Praifing God, &e. were no true dvor- fh p : ) the things changed were by the impofers and defenders ( fee Dr. Burgefs Rejoynder) profcfled tobe no parts at all of worfhip,but meer accidents; we have thefame people, fave here and therea few that feparate by yours and others feducement,and forcevile ones that we cart out ; we have abundance of the fame .Minifiers that we had. And yet muff we have noworfbip, lllini- ftry, Communion of Saints, or Salvation, becaufe we have only a Parochial andnot a Diocefan Epifcopacy ? Forfooth we have loft our Religion, and are all loft men, becaufe our Bifhops have but angle Parifh churches tooverfee ( which they find a load as heavy as they canbear, ) and we have not one Bithop to cake the Government of an hundred or two hundred Churches. At Rome he is a damned man that believeth not in the Pope : and is clot of the Catholike Church, becaufe he isout of the fubje ±i- on of the Pope : and with thefe men, weare loft men, ifwenever fo much believe in Chrift, becaufe we believe not in an Arch- hilltop, andare out of the Catholike Church and Communion of Saints, becaufe we will not be ruled by fuch Rulers as thefe. And what's all this, to fuch Counties as this where I live, and aloft elfe in England chat I hear of, that know of no Bifhop they have ( and they rejected none,) nor doth any come and com- mand them any Obedience? Muttwe be unchriflened,unchurcht and damned,, for not obeying, whenwe have none to obey, or none that calls for our obedience ? But I (hall let thefe men pals, and leave them in theirfeparation,deftring that they had Catho- like fpirits and principles. This much I have Paid to let men fee, that there is no poffiibilityof our union with this fort that are refolved on afeparation; and that it is not thefe Novelifts andDi- viders, but the ancient Epifcopal party of England that we can eailly agree with. 4.7. The next that I (hall infiance in, that was agreed with thefe Principlesof ours, is the late Reverend and Learned Bi fhc p VJser, of whofe Concord with us, I have twQ proofs. The one was his own profeflion to my felt. The other is his ownwritings,efpecially hisPropofitions given in to KingLharls, nowprinted, called [ The Reáu1tionof Epifcopacy to the form of Synodical Government, received in the ancient Church ] which confifìeth
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