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The Amicable Reconciliation of the DISSENTERS to the CHURCH of ENGLAND: being a Mo∣del or Draught for the Universal Accommoda∣tion in the Case of Religion, and the Bringing in all Parties to Her Communion. Humbly presented to the Consideration of Parliament.
WHereas there are several parties of Christians in the Nation, who must and will ever differ in their Opinions about the Church and Discipline of it, in the Question which is of Christ's Institution; it is not our Dis∣putes about the Church as Particular (which are rather to be mutually forborn, and every party left herein to their own Per∣swasion) but a common Agreement in what we can agree, and that is in the Church as National, must heal our Breaches.
The Catholicks are for one Universal Organical Church throughout the World, whereof the Pope is Head, according to some; and the Bishops Convened in a General Council, ac∣cording to others.
That there is a Catholick Church Visible on earth, as well as invisible, whereof CHRIST is Head, who was on Earth, and is now Visible in Heaven, is past doubt also with Protestants: But that this Church is Organical, and under the Government of a Monarchy by the Pope, or of an Aristocracy by a General Council, it seems a thing not possible in nature; because neither can any Oecumenical Council ever be Called, or any One Man be sufficient to take on him the Concernments of the whole World.