• -- 0/ the Worfhipping 'men. Efpecially, with theApoflle'· ufing them(as in a~ariner they only are ufed) thereby to provoke Chnfhan merno emulat!dn; by fhewing them their'own blindneffe in matter ofknowledge,that fee not fo much as the heathen did by the light ofNature : or their flackneffe, in matter ·Ofconverfai:ion; that cannot be got fo farre forward by;Go o's Ldw·as the .poore Pagan can by his Pbilojophie~ That ifGrar~ Will not Jl10;e, jhame may. · ' :' ' t;_ JI 1 Imaginations touching the .;/pBflles (ello"AAjhip. For; this do~rine re: Touching ceived, doth incorporat~the receivers·ofit into a fellowfhip·or-Society · ~~;.:J,:~:·s .. 'which_ is called _the fell~"AA{hip, .or cor~oration of t~e GoJPell. ; and they; that bnngnotthts doCl:nne, are.no wares to be retetved r.hereto. Which John,. to, ftlloiPfhip is not to befotfaken; as the manner offome is (menofimagi– ~t.;:.~·2· natiOIIS) in our daies, l!ither becaufe there be lmejies' for oportet e0e :Or, 19. . for that many at communions, come toget?er, notfor tiJe better, but for tbe 1 Cor.tt.J7 "!Porfe, for fo did they :in Corintb : Or bll:ly, for that many and many l'hit. 3 .xs, .Chriftians .wallte ·(which S. Paul wrote with teares).uenemies to the [roffi. ..ofChrifl; for.fo'it was in the ChurchofPhilippi. · '· , ) Cor. 1 ;.8. Now it-isplaine, thtrecan no Societieendlirewithoutgovermnent~ ,And therefore Goo ..hath appointed in it Go11ernours and .A{Siftants: ·1 Tim•s.r 9 which feeing they havepower from Gon, torejett ·or recei-ve accufgtions, J:cor. 8.Ja•.arid to judge tbo(e that-are1l>itbinand of the fe0o11!fhip; it is ari idle imagi– nation that fomc have imagined, to hold, theCburch·hathnot her ludgtJ!i•t· r.8,r7._ mmt-feat, and. power to cenfurc: her difobedient children. It bath ever obeene holden good Div~nity' that the Church from c HRI H t'C:Ceived .power t~<tnfureandJeparate willfull C>lfendors.Both,with theHeathen. man's (eparation, who mis~t not fo much as enter into theChurcb-door ·Aas ,,, ,g. (which is:rh(greater (enjure)-and with thePublicans feparation (which Luke r8.Jo••. js the leffi). who might enter and ptayjn the Teinple;but':"llS avoided · -- ·it~ . common con'Verfation!:and in the'{ello:rt>foip, of··the private table, and -therefore trtuch'morelof:theAltar: •Qfwhiclitwaine, the former, the Apoflle calletli.C.utt-ing,·afh Gal..5. 11. the latter abflainingfrom i.. Thef.3. 6• •:Xhe Primiti:Vc·Chur~h, callet~ the former excommunicator,-.the Litter ab. iflentos. S~·that, t'o phaiifil::~nogowritmmt, is an imagination. AGowm! .mmt·therc: is. v. • .~ ·, • • •. • • '· " < Touch:ing.t~eJonne of which Gol1m~mmt, m;tny imiginatioiis have ,larely beene l>rc:d ; i{i.thefe our dalts fpecially: At the writingofthis 'A.!s •·4s: J!etfe, it is,tertaine, thatthe-Govel!nrrteht ofChtiflianpeople confifled in Luke 9 .r. ·two deg(eesotf.C:ly."l(Ofboth which our SAvtotiR CHRiST' Himfelfe ' 1°·1· was theJ~llthor.) , J·0f<~he t"AAel11e, . 2 Of the jeWlJ{Y : ,bothwhich were o)ler the Peopler inJ!?iiigspertaining ta:Go D. . · · ' tr Thefc; f\Ve, were. onefuperiout:toanother <rnd no~:e~uall• ·And, t?at ~ theApoflles efl.a;b!ifbed'tln.e,quality in theC/ergy,is(l l:akeit)ariililaginauon• . :N~ rnal:l~Quldper!Jh in>tbeiainfaying of Corth~ und()E theGcifptll (whicl't ,r;. ~ --~- · - · - -· · - S.1ud~
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