[330] Arians, Trinitarians, and others, are names of religious distinctions. But, however we may commonly be ranked under any of these divisions, we reject them all. We disown all connexion, except that of love and good-will, with any sect or party whatsoever; and we consider all our fellow Protestants, of every denomination, in the same light, only as Christians, and cordially embrace them all in affection and charity as such. Whatever peculiar tenets they may hold, or in what respects soever they may differ from us, such tenets and such difference we consider not as affecting their Christian character and profession in general. Notwithstanding such peculiarities, we allow they may be good Christians, and as good Christians as ourselves.As we judge all men to be fallible, so we pass the very same judgment upon ourselves. As we allow no man to have dominion over our own faith, so we pretend to have no dominion over any man's faith or conscience, but freely leave him to the faithful exercise of his own judgment;—nay, we advise and entreat every person to the free and sincere use of his own understanding and judgment, as the only way in which he can approve himself to God, and gain the acceptance of his religious endeavours. And, in this way, though he may not agree with us in disputable points, we own and receive him as acceptable to God, and entitled to our religious fellowship.
This chapel, therefore, we have erected; and here we intend to worship the living and true God through the one Mediator Jesus Christ, not in opposition to, but in perfect peace and harmony
