We should also notice that Increase’s argument assumes a sort of Christian nationalism—that a particular people have a right to their particularity, and outsiders wishing to reside with them must conform to their way of life. If they don’t, the whole order can collapse or suffer. Increase appeals to a universal principle: that outsiders ought to respect the communities they enter, which further assumes a right of difference and a right of exclusion based on the good of particularity.
