Baxter - BV649 B3 1670

Wbat muß be tollerated. 365 Fourthly, Or elfe you mutt make fore that all the Kings funje&s fhall be born under the fame Planets , and of the fame parents, and have the fame temperament and complexion, and the fame teachers, and company , and all hear the fame words, and all fee the fame obje&s , and all have the fame callings , employments, interefts, paf- fions , temptations , advantages, and the fame degree of natural capacity, and of grace That fo there may be no difference or defe& in their apprehenfions. Fifthly, or elfe you muff t iftinguiíh, and fay; that forme are tollerable andThan be tollerated , and forne errours are intollerable anti/hall not be tollerated (in the tongue I mean;for you mutt tollerate thenn in the mired whether you will or not) And then you will find a neceffity of difcerning as well as you can,the tollerable from the intollerable. And if fo, for Chrifis fake and his Churches fake and your own fake, bethink you whether Chrift be not the King ofhis Church, and whe- ther he hath given his Church no Laws for its Conftitution and Adminiflration ? By which we muff try who are to be the members of himfelf and his Church, and to have Communion with himfelfand one another ? and who are to be re- je&ed andavoided? And whether the Holy Ghoft is not the Author of the Church- ef+abliihment in the Scriptures? And whether we can exile&more infallible deciders of fuch cafes, than Chriff, and his Spirit and Apofiles ? And whether the Church be not the fame thing now as then, and and its univerfal conffitution and necefary eidminl_ flratfen the fame ? And whether the primitive Church

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