rt 6,, care for all iourwealth: Ifyou muff kill a Fly on e Forehead of a ChildofGod witha Beetle, or a Butchers Axc, you !hall not. Life my hand to give the blow. I.fcbrf/ om vwould rather have his hand cut off than givethe Sacrament toa wicked man, tho' a Prince ; I will rather have mine cut off than reject. a Saint, or, my Tongue cut out than curie Chriffs Members, left he fay I curled him in them. }.' XXVIII'. Point YXV. ( r'''trli >iY the ,xcorr- h 1 { f , ;,tr,icGtinns of C:áncn 9f h, lot<, lit'. of , fcch as cail; `T.,i, f%n te-1°s a. Church, frirFlefe Canons made againtf Schfihiaticks and Conventicler. do Excommunicate all that fay- fuch are true Churches that have groaned under the burden of grievances, &c. And is. this a juft caufe of Excommunication ? Lwifh they had no fuck burden laid on them to make them groan. But fuppofe them quite miflaken ; if a weak miflaken. Chriffian may be a true Chriffian, tho' faulty, why, may not a miffaken Congregation be a true Church tho' faulty ? I hope no man of Proteffant Faith and Charitywill take the Errors of fuck, as they,defcribe for worfe than the Papiffs ; and yet how many, have written (tho' confafedly) to prove the very Church of Rome a ,true Church, tho' finful. Yea I hope few Proteffants will fay thatour Separatifis have half fo great Ignorance, Error and Corruption,as the. Mofcovites, Greeks, Abaffines, Copties, ; j acobites, Neforians, Armenians, who yet are commonly by us confeffed tohe true Churches. If they be no true Churches, it is either becaufe.. of the great-. nets of their Errors, or becaufe they go againff the Law or will. of Governors ; not the fall, as the forefaid inflances flew not the latter ; for no man ever yet owned that Principle; that it can be no true (tho' faulty) Church, that is gathered againfl the Rulers wills. For many hundredyears the Orthodox did it juffly ; and afterward when fome did it unjuffly, the culpability made it not a nullity. Fife what a cafe was the Roman Church in, that for many hundred years waskept up by Rebellion againft their Law- ful;Emperorsand princes? And how oft have a great part of the Grec /Churches been guilty ofit Atict .: _,;
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