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NEverthelesse we deny not, but that unity also in the ceremonies and rites of every Church ought to be retain'd and endeavourd as farre as possibly may be with safety of
conscience. For there are two kinds of things wherein the unity of the Church may be; namely, in some which are deliver'd in the word of God, and in others which are not so; of which last sort are many Eccle∣siasticall ribes and ceremonies. In which respect as we believe unitie in the former to be every where and alwayes necessary; we con∣ceive that although it be not abso∣lutely necessary as to these latter, but profitable to have severall distinct rites according to the diversity of places, and various conjuncture of times, yet where any of these parti∣cular matters is certainely ordain'd and admitted, there unity ought to be retain'd in these kind of rites, and Ecclesiasticall orders not to be di∣sturbed; according to the rule of the Apostle,* 1.1 That all things be done in the Church decently, in order, and to edification. Concerning which matters we likewise very much ap∣prove and commend two Epistles of St. Austin to Ianuarius, Epist. 118, and 119.
1 Cor. 14.40.