chism: Therefore,

That this happy and desirable union, may be holy and comfortable, in a
way that may procure, and secure our union and communion with the Lord:
And, considering in all the periods of this church from the first
reformation, a witness hath never been wanting, against the same, or
equivalent corruptions, that have offended us: And no method can be more
adapted for recovering and restoring, union, than that which was used
for preserving it: And that having aimed hitherto, to offer and keep up
our mite of a testimony against the same: if now, under the convictions
of its remaining righteousness, we shall pass from it; and so seem to
condemn what we approved before, and approve what we condemned before,
it will leave an undefiable reproach, not only on ourselves, but on our
contendings and sufferings.

We earnestly desire, Right Reverend, you would be pleased to condescend
to us, in some things, that we humbly conceive, are very needful, just
to be sought, and easy to be granted. We know and are confident, your
zeal for truth and peace, will suggest the same means and measures, for
obtaining this end, and will urge you to take notice of the same things,
we desire, without our advertisement: Nor do we take upon us to
prescribe the methods, terms or conditions, necessary for composing
these unhappy differences, and restoring the holy and happy union in the
Lord; but we think, the word and works of God this day, point at these
which we crave leave in the bowels of Christ, to remonstrate unto your
serious consideration:

I. That to the end the causes of our divisions, the anger of the Lord as
the holy cause, and our mutual offences, as the sinful cause may be
removed, that the effect may cease, a mutual, impartial, and accurate
search and trial may be made into our ways, to find out, and remember
from whence we are fallen, and discover our manifold and manifest
defections, from the right ways of the Lord; that the great wrongs and
indignities done to our great Head and King by enemies encroachments on
his prerogatives, and his kingdom's liberties, and our compliances
therewith, on the one hand, and on the other, may not be past in
oblivion but diligently inquired into; and what accession to them, or
participation with them, all of us have been involved in, these thirty
years bygone: Particularly that it be laid to heart, what indignity to
the Lord Jesus, and injury to his church, was done by the introduction