2-06 A eQmeries maus Separatiou. would you not rather joyn with them, than with no Church at all ? ..,.W'hen you remember on the Lords days, that now all the Chriflian world are congre- gate, and are callingupon God and praifing him, in the name of oneChi and in the profefiion of ón: Faith, dareyou think of being a Body feä parated from them all ? And can you think that Chrifl difowneth them all, fave you'? , u, Can you think it agreeable to the gracious nature; deign and office of Jefus Chrift tocall off and condemn fo many hundred parts of the Church- univerfal, and to accept that one part only which you joyn with ? Judge by his a Lions, and expreffions in the Scriptures. . W. 9. If therewere but ten perforas of your mind in all the world, would you believe that God would fave none but thofe ten, or accept the worhip of no more , or that it were lawful to eve communion with none but thofe ten ? If not, .how can you think fó in a cafe fo neer it ? . io. Can you prove that Chrifi Both fe- pirate from all the Chritlians of the world which you feparate from ? or that they have no vifïble Communionwith him ? or that he taketh them for no Churches, and difowneth the adminiftra- Lion of all the Miniflers in the world whom you difown ? or yet that it is fate, to feparate where Chrifl doth not feparate , and to be gone from his Houfe while he there abideth ? and to condemn thofe whom h: condemneth not ? nor yet commandeth you to forfake or to con- demn ?
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