FIrst, Atheists among us, are such people who would have no church-government here at all, but live in an independant way, as themselvs please, without controll, having no Church-discipline, nor regarding, nor caring for Godly people, their com­pany, nor their prayers.

2. Roman Catholicks among us, are a people who would have a church consisting of Cardinals, Arch­bishops, Bishops, deacons, Iesuits, Fryers, &c. indepen­dent to the crowne or civill Magistrate, and all the Discipline of the church to be wholly ordered by the Clergie, and used in what manner, where, where, and as they please, no man having authority to que­stion them why they doe thus: or thus. The service booke and the Masse-booke they would have in la­tin exactly performed, confession to the Priest, and absolution from him, and no prayers to be used, but what they allow.

3. The A [...]ians among us are a people who would have an high priest to be above the rest, and all the rest of the Clergy to be Prelates or Priests at the least, and no office or duty to be performed by them without Rochet, surplice, cap, tippet, or the like, ac­cording to their degree, and the service to be exactly [Page]performed with Organs, and other musicke, & singing as is appointed by the high Priests, that is the Bishops, &c.

4 The Arminians among us, are a people, who would have the church governed by Arch-bishops, Bishops, &c. to whom should be given such authori­ty and respect, that whatsoever they in their Court doe establish out to be confirmed by the King, and his Counsell, to whom they would have such respect given, that they shuld not be thwarted in any design. These would have the Discipline of the church to consist in the Prelats Courts, and what is there done by them, their Doctors, proctors, &c. to passe unresi­stably in the church, or to any member thereof, the first and latter service they would have exactly per­formed, one at the desk, the other at the Altar, with their cushions, basons, wax candles, and the rest of that rabblement, set in places as appointed before them.

5. Adamites are a people, who would have an in­dependent society, which neither Magistrate nor church should command, nor meddle with, but live as they list, and labour to increase and multiply in the world, fearing neither government, nor disci­pline, and in their societies, they are so overcome with lust, that they cannot pray.

6. Famalists among us, are a people who would have an independent church, neither would they have any Bishops, Elders, presbetors, nor Govern­ment in the church, and would have all things com­mon, not onely goods, & cattell, but wife and chil­dren, And that no punishment should be inflicted upon any offender, but onely to pray for them, and so leave them to the mercy of God.

[Page] 7. Anabaptists amongst us, are a people who would have an independent church, neither wold they have any government of the Clergy at all in the church, for feare of an Antichristian church, neither would they have any baptized, but such who are of age, and judgment, to know what it is to be baptized. These would have churches, meetings, & members of their owne election, and take in, and cast out whom they please, and their prayers are more that God would grant thema church after their desire, then for grace and faith.

8. Novelists amongst vs, are a people who affects change of government, and discipline, to day they follow the Bishops to hear them preach at Court, then they applaud the government, another day they follow the religius divines in London, then they cry down the Bishopr, for an Antichristian government, another time they begin to pause upon it, & consider of the pleasantnesse of the formality, of the Church of Rome, and yet are never constant in any thing, one while they are all for the hearing of the service in Cathedralt, and by & by they care not for the service, and onely follow Sermons.

9. Time servers are those who are alwayes of the strongest side, as neare as they can, when most would have Bishops, so would they, when the Bishops are likely to goe downe then they would have none, they commend no Discipline but that which they see they are like to have, in Cathedrals they commend all their ceremonies, but where the Service is not read, or in company that so affect it they command, and applaud prayer by the spirit. 10. Canonists are those amongst us, that would have the government of Bishops still to abide, because they stand by Canon Law upon the same grounds, they labour for Canon-discipline, and the ca­nonicall houres and forme of prayer, and all other canoni­call Rites and ceremonies.

[Page] 11. Lutherans are those amongst us, who would have no Bishops, but a Church-government under the king, consisting of the Clergie and Laity together: and whatsoever in the discipline ordinances of the church is of man, and correspondent to the church of Rome to be altered and changed to the nearest conformity to the primitive church.

12. Seperatists are a people among us, who would have the Bishops cast out, & the government of the Church committed to Elders Ecclesiasticall, and Layicke, and moreover an independent church-go­vernment granted besides, for the free use of liberty of conscience without correction, or controll in di­vine ordinances, and Ecclesiasticall discipline, onely popery and popish Innovations excepted.

13. Brown [...]sts are a people among us, who would have the Bishops cast out, and their discipline, and the booke of Common-prayer no more used, but the Government of Elders established to governe the church, and such Discipline confirmed by the Par­liament, as shall be by the Church presented, when the evill Members are cast out, and no prayers to be used but extemporary prayers, and that whosoever have received the guift of preaching, may freely preach, of what calling or condition soever he be, in case he be a godly man, & by the church approved.

14 Puritans among us are a people, who would have the Bishops removed, and the church no more to be ruled by them: but by a Presbyteriall Govern­ment, as it is in Scotland, and the very same Govern­ment discipline, & ordinances which they have, they would have here, approving of it in their judgments [Page]and conceive it to bee the happiest Government in the world; especially if we enjoy it, because the Church in Scotland, and ours in England, is all in one and the same Iland, and under one and the same King.

15 The Author, and those of his mind, pray to God for a Reformation, and that God would bee with the great Assembly in the setling thereof, wai­ting Gods time, and their accomplishment thereof: not doubting, but that God will be with them, to worke such a reformation, as shall make the church of England glorious, and what that high Court shall establish, we doubt not, but that their Decla­ration will bee sufficient to give satisfaction to all true hearted Protestants, and all who wish well to the King, Church, and Kingdome of England.

16 All true hearted Protestants desire and pray, that God would bee pleased, to bee with that great Assembly, and to guide them, that they may esta­blish such things, and only such as may be pleasing to Almighty God, for the honour of the King, the comfort to the Church, and the good of the whole Kingdome, and that for Christ his sake, Amen.