[ 341 caul, and becaufe they take the Paftors to be fcandalous by the forefaid O ths, Declarations and fubfcriptions, and thole that have not the peoples coi,fent,to be no true Paftors. But thefe are herein difowned by the tn:)9c ; and very few Minifters are of their mind that we know of; though many of the people much incline to it ; efj>ecially they Fh+t live where the Prieíts are ig- norant, fandalous, fl,othful, or malignant ; be- caufe Pawl faith, [With jr.ch, no not to eat] But others tell them that i. Ir is not the Parith-Mi- nilters that made the excommunicating Laws 2. And if they fin themletves, it is ignorantly : 3. And we have not a call and opportunity to hear and judge them. XI. Even thole called Independents hold (if. Mr. Ph. Nyes Manufcript to that end may tell us their minds) that it is lawful to hear the publick Parifh Knitters, becaufe the Magiftrate may let Teachers over the People, and require them to hear them: Though they hold that the People fhould choofe their Paftors, and that the Sacra- ments fhould be adminïhred and received freely, and not by force. Yea fuch Anabaptifts as Mr. Tombs (as is vifible in his Book)hold that Com- munion with the Parifh- Church is lawful, in the Word, Prayer, and Lords Supper. XII. We commonly hold that men unjuftlyex- communicated, are not thereby dilobliged from publick worrhiping of God, and living under Pa- ftror'al overfight and Church difcipline, nor are bound ro endanger their own falvation by neg- ieaing fuch duties, and loling fuch helps and pri- viled es; and therefore malt be of fuch Churches as they can, if they cannot be of fuch a§ they would,
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