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divide
the
q'roteftants,
plainly enough
thew
their
Sentiments upon
this Head.
In
how many
Shapes
have
they
ap-
pear'd
?
What
Pretences,
what Intrigue,
what
Difguife have
they
not
employ'd,
to
begin or
carry
on
thofe
Animofities,
in
which
they
have found
too great
Succefs
?
'Tis
rather
to
be
wifl7'd
than
cxpeted, that
all
who have
feparated
from
the
Church of
Rome
thould agree
in
the
fame
Opinions,
or
the
fame
ex-
ternal
Rites;
but
in
mutual Forbear-
ance and
Charity
they
may
all
concur.
'Tis
more
than
time
they thould:
Duty
as
well
as
Intereft
oblige
there
to
it.
While
Popery
is
gaining
continually
upon
the
declining Intereft
of
the
Re-
formation
;
while
our perfecuted
Bre-
thren
feel,
in
the
moft
fenfilále
manner,
the
daily Progrefs
of
this
ern-el
'Super-
ftition
upon
the
Continent
and
while
the
7Emiffaries
of
Rome
are
fo
far
from
being
ina&ive
in
this
I,
jland,
at
fuch
a
Juí
ure'tis
extreamly
unfeafonahle,
and
may
be
very
_prejudicial,
to
kindle
or
revive
any
Difputes among
thofe
of
the
fame
Faith.
No
Benefit
Pure
can
arife
to
the
general
Inter&
of
'Proteflantifm,,
from endeavouring
to
convince
its Ad-
verfaries,
that
different
Parties
of
Pro
-
teftants
have
treated
one
another
as
feverel
=y
as
Papifts
have
treated
them
all,