The Preface. 53 2. Require no Communion but by vertue of the Rule before declared. In no other are we concerned, with refpe& unto the Peace and Unityof the Church. 3. Give a firther Confirmation, than what we have yet Peen unto the Principles or Prefumptions they pro- ceed upon in theMannagement of the Charge ofSchifine, As that (I.) Diocefn ilhops with their aietropolitans areof Divine Inftitution. (2.) That the Power ofRule in and over all Churches is committed unto them alone. (3,) That the Church bath Power to ordain Religious Rites and Ceremonies, no where prefcribed in the Scrip- ture, and impofe the Obfervation of them on all Mem- bers of the Church. (k.) That this Church they are.. (5.) That no Mans Voluntary Confnt is required to con- ftitute him a Memberofany Church, but that every one is furprized into that Bate whether he will or no. (6) That there is nothing offorce in the Arguments pleaded for Non -compliancewith Arbitrary unneceffary Tmpofì- tions. (7.) That the Church ftandeth in no need of Reformation, neither inDo&rine,Difcipline, nor Conver- fation ; with fundry other things ofan alike. Nature,that: they needunto their Jufki&cation.. But yet when all is done, it will appear, that mutual Forbearance, firft removing Animofities, then admini- firing Occafion of inoffenve Converfe, unto the revival of decayedAffe&ions, leadingunto fedate Conferences. and Confiderations of a more entire conjun&ion in the things whereunto we have attained, will more conduce un- to Univerfal Peace and Gofpel Unity, than the molt: fierce contentions about things in difference, or the .molt vehement Charges of Schifine againft Diffenterr. But
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