298 Localfeparation when lawful. fee that you love them as members of Chrifi, who ifweak are yet Chriftians, and perhaps in other refpeets better than you. (To fay nothing whe- ther it be they or you that are in the right.) You like not all that is done in the Lutherans Chur- ches, much lefs in the CCree and Ethiopian : And yet I hope you difown not their fpiritual com- munion as Churches though faulty, and as mem- bers of the fame body. But if you are not cone tent to choofe an ordinary communionmolt fai- table to your felf,but you muff conclude thit fach are no Miniflers or no Churches of Chriff ; their worfhip is not accepted by him, it is not lawful to have communion with them, but rather to joyn with no Church, than with them; and will accordingly contemn them and irritate and alie- nate mens minds againfl them ; Be fare that you prove well what you fay , or wonder not if all wifeand fober men do take th's for downright o- dious fchifm , and one of the wor(} of the works of the flefh, Gal. 5. zo, at. z Cor. 3. I, a, 3,4. I I. On the other fide if any withdraw from our Communion, let us not too haflily accufe themof fchifm ; And whenwe do, let us well diiinguifh of fchifm , and not go farther from them than they have gone from us, and tobe our (elves the Schifmaticks while we oppofe it. There are many. cafes in which localfeparati n may be lawful. Firff, As if our callings juf}ly remove us to another place or Country. Se- condly, Ifour fpiritual advantage bind' us to re- move to a better Minifler ant more fuitable fo- ciety
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