Church -cruelty andperfecutionfogna,&c, 249 DIRECT. LV. Whenyou complain ofviolence andperfecution in others , take heed fell you Pew the fame inward fin, by Church-perfecution andcru- elty agáinff them, or any others. j3Ut becaufc I know that guilt caufeth impa- tience, and paffiondifpofeth men to mif}akes and falfe reports, before I proceed, I mutt here foretell you, I. That I mean not by Separ:tifis all that are fo calledby intereffed injudicious per- fons : But thofe I. that account true Churches of Chrift to be no Churches, 2. or that account it unlawful to bold Communion with thefe Churches, whofe communion is not unlawful ; becaufe they are faulty, or becaufe they differ from them in fome opinions or circumftances of worship : 3. efpeci- ally if theypra1ife, and perfwade others topra- ¿ ife according to thefe t4vo opinions ; of which the ftrf} is the higher fort of feparation, and the fecond the lover. And fecondly, That by Church-dividers,I mean both thefe and all fuch whofeprinciples and pra- ifes are tgainfl that love of a Chriflian as a Chriflian , and that forbearance of diffenters which Mould be exercifed to all the members of Chris ; and who fly from the ancient fimplicity and primitive terms of Church-communion, and adde (as the Papills do) their own little novelties Ssneceffary things. And thefe that do ca:ifiefly fsparare from their own
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