A Second Discourse of the Religion of England, Table of contents
THE Contents.
Sect 1. OF the Foundation of our Peace already laid in the Religion of the Nation, and the Structure thereof, to be perfected by the Vnity of that Profession.
2. The Good of the several Parties is best secured by Common Equity, and the Good of the Vniversality.
3. What may be esteemed a good Constitution of the State Ecclesiastical.
4. The Comprehensiveness of the Establishment, and the allowance of a just Latitude of Dissents, is the best Remedy against Dissentions.
5. Whether the present Dissentions are but so many Factions in the State.
6. Whether the Nonconformists Principles tend to Sects and Schisms.
7. Of their Principles touching Obedience and Government.
8. Of placing them in the same rank for Crime and Guilt, with the Papists.
9. Whether their Inconformity be Conscientious or Wilful.
10. Of their peaceable Inclinations, and readiness to be satisfied.
11. The propounded Latitude leaves out nothing necessary to secure the Churches Peace.
12. Of acquiescence in the Commands of Superiors, and the proper matter of their Injunctions.
13. Of the alledged Reasons of the Ecclesiastical Injunctions in the beginning of the Reformation.
14. The alledged Reasons why the Ceremonies are not to be taken away, Examined.
15▪ Of the diversity of Opinion and Practice already permitted in the Church of England.
16. Men differently perswaded in the present Controversies, may live together in peace.
17. Of Dissenters of narrower Principles and of Toleration.
18. It is the Interest of the Nonconformists to prefer Comprehension before Toleration, where Conscience doth not gainsay.
19. It behoves both the Comprehended and the Tolerated to prefer the common Interest of Religion, and the setling of the Nation, before their own particular Perswasions.
20. Episcopacy will gain more by Moderation, then by Severity in these Differences.
End of the text · John Corbet, A Second Discourse of the Religion of England (1668)