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Their whole intent was to make a separation and a schisme, and* 1.1 to withdraw men from their ordinary Churches and pastours, and therfore most odiously they inueied against such pastours, and sought by all meanes to discredite them.
We make no separation from the Church, we go about to separate al those things, that offend in the Church, to the end that we being al knit to the sincere truth of the Gospel, might afterwards in the same bond of truth, be more neerely and closely ioyned togither. We endeuour that euery Church hauing a lawfull pastoure, whiche is able to instruct, all mighte be ranged to their proper Churches, whereas diuerse, vnlesse they go to other than their owne parishes, are like to heare few sermons in the yeare, so farre are we from withdrawing men from their ordinarie churches and pastours. Let him that inueyeth against any pastoure without good cause, beare the punishment: as for inueying againste heaping of liuing vpon liuing, and ioyning steeple to steeple, and non re∣sidence and such ambition and tyrannie, as beareth the sway in diuers ecclesiasticall persons, if the price of the pacification, be the offending of the Lorde, it is better you be displeased, than God bee offended.
Fol. 17. 77.