[2151 either inf}are Men in unneceffary Oaths &Covet pants, nor harden fuch men against Repentance; by doing any fuch thing our felves, Much leCs by commanding it. XVII. We are agreed that to commit á.: fin by paffion or fudden furprize, is not fa wicked as to do it on deliberation : Nor is the doing it only fo bad , as undertaking to juitifie and encourage others to do the like. XVIII. We are agreed that God is jealous about holy things, and that wilful corrupting his Church, worship or'difcipline, to the diigrace'of religion and encouragement of wickednefs is a heinous fin : Efpeciallÿ to Approve fuch things. XIX. We are agreed that to make a deliberate Covenant that I will fin against God, and to fubfcribe and declare this is a heinous aggrava- tion of the fin : e. g When the high places were kept up in ?udea if any had Covenanted to keep them up, and purpofed to tranfgrefs, the wilfialnefs had been thegreatnefs and dangerous ígnificationof fuch finning; XX. We are agreed that Repentance is G :ds condition of forgivenefs ; and that for a man to refolve and Covenant to lin and to profcfs it penly to all the Church, and that oft t'irames, and fù to renoásnce Repentance, XXI. Molt fober Chriftians are agreed that Chriftians thould be united upon . the terms whichChrift himfelf hash made in the b22ptifrat Covenant, and in their obedience to his Laws and that Papal! Ufurpations and irnpofing of things unneceffarÿ as neceffary to Union, gain.: rnunion or Miniftration, bath been the great cattle of Schifins through the Chr ftian Or$d¡
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