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V
E
R.
y'.
Ephefanr,
Chap.
q..
46;
Divers,
in
regard at divers times ,
in
divers
manners,
it
bath
been Anf.
delivered.
One,
in
regard that alwayes the
felfe
-fame
matter
and
fubftance
was revealed:
H.nce
we learne,
That the true
Churches of
God
profiffe Dotf,
one
and
thefelfe.fame
doílrine,
and
therefore
muli'
hold
in (lriritual
concord
one
with
another.
To
profecute either branch: other
foundation
can
no
zhore
i
,o.
man lay, then
that
which
is
laid,lefou
Chrifl.
Which
Go(fiell is
not
another,
one
doadne
but
thefame
Well,
there
is
but one Chrifèian doélrinc
which the
viii.
of
(the true
óE
blc
Church
can imbrace and
hold;
for god and
chrifl
were
yeflerday,
Chrift.
to
day,
and
will
be
the fame
for
ever.
And
as
the
Church
of
God
Heh.r
;.s.
hath
had
one, fo
all
the Churches now have one
and
the
fame.
But
it
will be obje
ted by the Papifts, that
we have
not the confent
objets.
of
Catholick Antiquity,
and
therefore not the
fame
doctrine
:that
we
have diflention>
among
our
felves, every new
yeare making force
thing
new in our
faith,
as
the ancient
fpake
of
the Arians
,
therefore
we have not one doctrine among our felves.
The
ancient
Catholick
confent
fl:andeth in
two things.
How
we
at
-
.
In
the
receiving
of
the Scriptures.
cord with
ca-
2.
In receiving
the
ancient
Creeds
in
the
true fenfe
of
them,
,,ikeanti-
which our Churches doe,
as
may eafily appeare.
Tiny.
For the fecond.They
who
have
diffentrons among
themfelves have
not one faith.
The
anfwer
to this bath
foue
confiderations.
How our
dif-
s.
The
Vnity
of
doctrine mull be confidered;
fcrences difa-
I.
As given
from
God.
nul
not unity
in the faith.'.
2.
As
received
in
the Church.
In the
firft
fenfe, we have one
doctrine.
In the fecond,
it is
true
that
we doe not
all alike
receive
this one
doctrine. This
is
the
defliny
of the true
vifible
Churches, there
(hall
be
hereues
in
them,
much inward diverfrty
of
judgemenr,they that
are
perfect thinking thus, others otherwife.
2.
There
is
not fuchwant
of
Vnity
as
the Papifts pretend: for
pri-
vate mens fquaring
doth
not break the Vnity
of
Churches
;
this being
unjuft,that one
mans
or
a
few mens
faults,
fhould be
charged on the
whole
Church.
Now
look the authorifed Catechifines, the harmony
ofconfefïions,
and
you
(hall fee
our
Churches
in fubftance
according
many
of
them altogether.
3. Our
Divines
do correct
thernfelves fecretly when
they
with
that
cancelled
that
difagreeth with the
word
of
God
,
fubmitting
them
-
felves
thereunto, which
is a
farre
better
falve for diffcntion,
then
yiel-
ding our felves to
the
See
of
Rome.
4.
The
Papifts have moredifference
;Who
knoweth not the
fad
ions
of
scatifls and Thomiflst
who knoweth not
the
multitude
of
conftru-
clions
they
have
of
thofe
words,
Thu
is my
body;
and dagger
drawing,
to
which force
of
them
have lately
contended,
This
then being fo
that
we have
for fubflance
, and
imbrace for the
r
e
i.t
fubflance
of
it, one doeirine, let this be
a
bond
of
uniting
us in
heart
cep
S
f
2
one
ns in concord.