(3+3 ) Dothhe not begin very wifely and charitably ? What could the mofl Schifmatical Paptfl fay more ? What ! no true worfhip ! no true el?ini firers ! andbut CNfi<omary Chrifiians that come thither ? Yes, and that's not all : he purfues it with an exprobration, that we arefain fromour Religion, (p. q..) and yet that's not all : he adds, [ " Here f emsyet to be a very bad certaintyof their Re- ligion ; and how can therebe a better Certainty of their flea- "tion? unlefs'(that we may gratifie their fingularity more thin `i our own veracity) we will fay, There may be a company of "goodChri/lians out of the Communion of Saints, or a Commu. " nion of Saints out of Chrifiis Cath like Church.] Should we.._ laugh or weep at fuch a man as this ? What ! no communion of Saints, but with the feparating party of the Prelates ? ,Unhap. py we that live in England, andcan meet with fo fmall a number of thefe Saints. Is the Catbalike Church confined to this parry and Salvation to this Chunch ? Tranfcendent Papal arrogancy I Its well that thefe Prelates are not the only Key- keepers of hea- ven ! for we fee how we Mould then be ufed. I mull tell this Dr. and all of his mind, that it is an eafier way to Heaven, then wedare hope to come thither by, to joynour' (elves to their fe- pa.rnting Commúnion ofSaints, and live as the mofl that we are acquainted with, that are of that Saint-like Communion, He had been betterhave talked at there rates to men of another Age or Nation, then to us that fee the lives of their adherents. We never changedour Religion nor our Church. What if he read his prayers, and I fay mine without book ; or what if he pray in wkite, and I in black? or what if he kneel in receiving the Eu- charift, and I fit or Rand ?' or what if he ufe the Croft in bap- tifine, and I baptize no better then the Apoflles did without it do there or fuch like make us to beof two Relifians ? Do I change my Religion, if I read with a pair of fpe1acIes, or if I look to- wards the South or Weft, rather then the Eafl &c.? We fee what there men would make the fhrif?ianReligion to be. Were the Apofiles no Chrillians, becaufe they had no kneelingat the Eucharifl, nor Crofs in $aptifm, nor Surplice, nor (atkalt our) Common Prayer-book, &°c ? Dare you fay they were no Chriflians ? or yet that Chriilian Religion was one thing then, and another thing now ? And for our Churches, we do not onlymeet in the fameplaces, but we have the fame do trine, the t
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