138 cnuRcn unity 



who are scholars a sentence to write upon 

 your study doors, as needful an one in 

 these times as any ; it is this : Opinionum 

 varletas, et opiniantium unitas non sunt 

 ao-vo-Tara, Variety of opinions and unity 

 of those that hold them may stand to- 

 gether. There hath been much ado to 

 get us to agree; we laboured to get our 

 opinions into one, but they will not come 

 together. It may be in our endeavors for 

 agreement we have begun at the wrong 

 end. Let us try what we can do at the 

 other end ; it may be we shall have better 

 success there. Let us labour to joyne our 

 hearts, to engage our affections one to an- 

 other; if we cannot be of one mind that 

 we may agree, let us agree that we may be 

 of one mind." 1 



In answer to this flag of truce the Pres- 

 byterian ministers of the Provincial As- 

 sembly of London in 1653 sent forth the 

 following : — 



" A fifth sort are our reverend brethren of 

 the New and Old England of the Congrega- 

 tional way, who hold our churches to be 

 true churches, and our ministers true minis- 



i " Irenicum to the Lovers of Truth and Peace." 

 London, 1645. p. 255. Briggs as above, p. 451. 



