Obedience to the Articles and Rubrics of the Church of England / a Bond of Union between the Established Clergy

A visitation sermon urging that careful observance of the Church’s Articles and Rubrics will preserve unity among the established clergy, the preacher exhorts humility, meekness, long-suffering, and mutual forbearance as means to maintain the bond of peace. He addresses contemporary agitation within the Church, advocates a middle course between ritual excess and dissent, and seeks to purify practice from both formalism and enthusiasm while upholding reformed doctrine. A prefatory note explains his initial reluctance to publish, his acceptance at the request of fellow ministers, and his hope that temperate argument will promote concord and spiritual health.