Ztncharitablenafs of : ,aratr,on, 36i carnal perfons, at leafy in profedìo and there fore that you are not fo tender of tlit,fleilk, as to take its fuffering to be any great in fitter toyou, in comparifonof any of the fuWeringsof the foul. When you refufe Communion with men, as judging them unfit for fellowfhip with the vifible Churches of Chrift, you judge them the vita ble members of thedevil , and condemn themta the lofs of the greatenpriviledges on earth, and to be left out with the dogs, with Publicans and Heathens : Though you think that you have no more to do your felves in the execution of this fentence , but to feparate from them , yet yo.t declare that you think that all others ihould d, the fame : So that your tolerating theirComm, nion among themfelves, is nogreat tîgnificatian of your charity. The fum of all that I fayto you is this It is but oneand the fame fin in the merfecutor and the Divider or Separatift, which caufeth, the one to finite their brethren , and the other to excommu- nicate them the ont to call them into prifons as Schifnlatickr, and the other to cal} them out of the Church as prophane : the one to account them intollerable in the land, and the other to açcoun;t them intollerable in the Church : the one to fay, Away with them they are contumacious; and the other to fay, Away with them they are ungodly. The inward thoughts of both is the fame , that thofe whom they finite or fepograte from , are bad and unlovely and unfit for any better ufage. When Love which thinketh no evil till it isnecef- fwed, and believeth all things which are at all credible, ai hgpeth all things which are not V 3 clef®
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