o "4) M. -His newlygone to his Judge : Nobis.non:l cet =- I told you that in my Catechifrn on the NinthCommandment, .I have given uuanf ferableReafons againft Lying,for. any Benefit what- ever Some fay that all our Articles of Religion, are but Articles of Peace, and we fubfcribe not to believe them trite, but not to preach againf, them. At this rate men need not flick at .:ar.y. Oath, and may íhake offtheOath of Allegiance, or any other when they have taken it. And if we are thought worthy to be bated, and ruined as Rogues, for refuting felf: faving,. pruden- tial, deliberate Lying, and Perjury, when Oaths and Veracity are fo much of the fecurity of the Eftates, Names, and Lives, of iings and Subjecis, and fo necefi`hry to all humane Converfe, we patiently commit our Gaule toHim that íhórtly and righte® outly will determine all. HA p. LV 1111. Whether C'o.mmuniott withfoF4ty a, Churçr be Latrf%l. Shelved what youfaid againfl Conformity to a Friend, and when he had read it, hefaid, What a Self-contraditor ss ?his Man, to lay all this Charge on the Church of England, and yet himfelf to bold Communion with it, and perfroade others fó to do? Can we touch Pitch and not be defiled? And indeed if all this be as bad asyou fear, 1 cannot fee how any Separatifis are to be blamed, or how any may Communicate with fo bad a Church. M. Sic fulti viria vitant, drunken men reel from fide to fide; to keep one right tract, or to cut by a thred, feemeth ini-. poífible to them. I. You mutt diftinguifh between theDiocefan Churchsas con- .Itïtuted by their Courts of Government and Canons, and the Parith Churches. Il. Between thofePariah- Churches which have godly or tole- rable Paftors, and thofe that have not. III. Between Miniítry and Lay.Communion. V. ,;Betweenfated and occafaonal Communion. V. Between preferring their Churches before better, and not avoiding them as null, or as unlawful to be Communicatedwith. Undezfcand thefe five diftint ions well and I íhall .fatísfy Y© L.' 4-
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