C z9 And for Perjury ; it's one thinggro ly to be perjured ; I char- ged them not with that And it's another thing to fay or do Somewhat that may make a man fome way guilty of other mens perjury : This is it which affrights me fromConformity ; l)Utas to them, they underftand the words ofOaths, and ProrLfes and impofitions otherwife than I do (as I told you the Earl of nylt did) and I doubt not but many worthy men, Such as Mr. G;,rnal, and others known to us, were drawn in, by hay- ing leave to declare that they took the impofitions in fveh a fence as they thought Lawful (as the !Arians at the Council ofSeluwcit and the 4c4cian5 drewmany in to them by giving them 3.11 leave to fubfcribe in their own fence) And though I can jullifie none of this; yet what ever their words were, and though they were not faultlefs, their hearts abhorred Perjury. But I pray you ask your friend thefe Queftiorrs. L : Didnone that are for feparation from the Church of L% Viand take the Corporation -UKfl? and Declaration ? You know that many of them did. 2. Do they ever Since avoid Communion with all'thofe men ? You know they do not. And yet none-of the Minilters Sub- fcriptions to me feem half fo frightful as the Corporation De- claration. Do they not then here Phew Partiality, and-thearr felves juftify our Communion with the Conformilts ? Yea when Mr. Eaton, and' forneother Independants wrote a- gain4t the obligation of the Covenant, and ofthe Oath of Alle- giance, and many called the Covenant an Almanack out ofdate ; did the rat avoid communion with thefe ? L. But briefly tell me why pis Communicate in the r-P,rir Churches. M. Briefly, 1. Becaufe Chrift bath Commanded us to live in theutmoft Love, Union and Concord with all his Church on Earth; that we pofliibly can. x. Becaufe they hold, all the effentials ofChrifl'ianity, which conftituteth them Members of Chrift's Church, and 'no errour that nullifieth'their Chriltianity, o maketh their Cainmunio unlawful to me. , 3. Becaufe my own edification-bath required it I have long lived where I could have no better Communion ; and after foundCommunion with both forts molt profitable tome; I found the ,Liturgy in the main, fit for my ferious delires and praiè to Gody
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