296 Keep diflarat communion at leaf!. DIRECT. LTX. Ifthrough thefaults ofeither fide or both, you cannot meet together in the fame particu- lar Church or place, yetpreferve that uni- ty in J'aith, Love andpradife, which ali neighbour Churches fhould maintain with ene another, andufe not your different 4f femhlies torevile each other, and killyour Love. A LL dillances are undefinable and tend to more : But yet our unity lyeth not fo much in meeting in one place, as in being of one Mind, pnd Heart and Life : Many occaficns may war- rant our corporal diílance ; but Heart-divifianr fhould be moil avoided. It is the principles and motives uponwhich you w ithdravv,which are moze çonfiderable than the local dillance. Therefore on one fide let us take heed how we inchgrch and rinchri/ten any with whom we donot corporally joyn : And on the other fide, let us take heed how we revile them all as Seóaries and Separatifls,who do not joyn with our affemblies: But let us know the reafon of their praEtife be- fore'rwe peremptorily judge them. I.Perhafs you think that fuch or fuch a Church. government, or Forms, or Ceremonies, are un arrantable,and filch and fuch oaths and fubfcrip- tons arc unlawful, and therefore you cannot baye local communion with the Churches that rnpofe there. If it were fo, yet take heed of c u Jt ng .efeno Churc i Chili L . t.: t,. L tending
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