Three letters to the bishop of Bangor

[in]troduce confusion? If there were 5,000 different sects in England, has not your Lordship persuaded them to be content with themselves and not to value what they are told by other communions? Have you not told them that if they are only sincere, they need not have regard for anything else? Is this not the way to introduce confusion? What is confusion but difference and division?

And does not your Lordship plainly declare to the world that there is no need for unity? That there is no particular way or method that can recommend us more to the favor of God than another? Has your Lordship even given the slightest hint that it is better to be in the communion of the Church of England than not? Have you not exposed her sacraments and clergy and, as much as lay in your power, broken down everything in her that distinguishes her from fanatical conventicles? fanatical conventicles: secret or unauthorized religious meetings; here used as a derogatory term for groups that met outside the established Church of England

What is there in her, as a church, that you have left untouched? What have you left in her that can in any way invite others into her communion? Are her clergy more authorized than others? For fear that this should be thought, you call a regular succession regular succession: also known as Apostolic Succession, the belief that bishops and priests derive their authority through an unbroken chain of ordinations tracing back to the Apostles from Christ a trifle. Are her sacraments more regularly administered? Lest that should recommend her, you slight the nullity or validity of God's ordinances original: "ordinances" — referring to established religious rites like Baptism and the Lord's Supper. Is there any authority in her laws which require communion with her? Lest this should be believed, you tell us that our being or continuing in any particular method (or particular communion) cannot recommend us more to the favor of God than another.

I must observe to your Lordship that these opinions are very oddly placed in a Preservative from original: A Preservative against the Principles and Practices of the Non-jurors (1716), the book by Hoadly that helped spark the Bangorian Controversy