Mr. H. thinks all this will be prevented by his Episcopal Visiters, who are to see, that the Churches of both sorts walk according to their own Order, and the Peace of one another.
But, 1. Who shall undertake, that all these Churches shall quietly submit to these Visiters, and quietly obey their Orders, any more than they do to the Visitation of their Ordinaries now? And what means of Union is there left, if they don't?
2. Who shall undertake, that these Visiters themselves shall not prove factious and partial, and secretly foment, instead of suppressing Disputes and Quarrels between the Churches, for the Visiters are to be of all sorts too, as well as the Churches; Independent, Presbyteri∣an, and Episcopal Visiters, by the name of the King's Bishops, or Ecclesiastical Officers? now I doubt Episcopal Churches would find no great comfort in the Visitation of such Inde∣pendent and Presbyterian Visiters, as Dr. Owen and Mr. Baxter; I confess for my own part, I should not much care to come under their Vi∣sitation. And I will not answer for all Epis∣copal Visiters, that they shall always carry an equal hand to Dissenters. As for Instance.
Mr. H. says, That no Members of either Church should depart from one Church to another, with∣out a sufficient peaceable Reason. Now who must be Judge of this, but the Visiter? Sup∣pose then, a Member of a Presbyterian Church think fit to return to the Episcopal Church, do you think, that a Presbyterian Visiter will be casily satisfied, that he has a peaceable and sufficient Reason for this? Will not every Vi∣siter