And since the State must have within itself all the means of sufficient life, it has the right to resist the ecclesiastical onslaught as based upon the usurpation of power assumed without right.

And in later treatises Hoadly did for ceremonial exactly what he had done for church government.

The eucharist became a piece of symbolism and excommunication nothing more than an announcement--"a mere external thing"-- that the rules of the fellowship have been broken.

It at no point is related to the sinner's opportunity of salvation.
In such an aspect, it would clearly follow that the Church has no monopoly of truth.

It can, indeed, judge its own beliefs; but reason alone can demonstrate the inadequacy of other attitudes.