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APPENDIX.
Numb.VTe
blies, as
well
as
he
that
feparateth from
commanded
ones
(by men).
And
if
God com-
mand Love and Communion of
all
Chriftians,
as
they have
occaion,
as
being one
Bread and one Body, what God commandeth and conjoyneth, no Man may for-
bid or
put
afunder.
Therefore
I
conceive you owe Obedience to
both
the
pofttive
Commands,
but
to
neither
of
the general Prohibitions
of
Communion.
XX.
But
you cannot
obey
both
at
once:
I
anfwer
;
Obey both
as
far as
you can;
and
Obey
neither when it tendeth to
your deftra
Lion.
If
Parents
bid you
joyn
with
Hereticks or
Rebels,
obey
them not.
If
others
bid
you commit
the
Paftoral
Care
of
your
Souls
to intolerable Men, obey them not.
But where
formal Obedi-
ence ceafeth, Prudence muffdire& youabout material Obedience.
It
is
Obedience
When we
do
it
in Confcienceto the Authority
:
It
is
Prudence when wegather
our
Duty from theEnd.
Avoid
that
molt
that
bringeth the molt intolerable
Confe-
quents, and prefer that which tendeth to the grearelt Good.
Some dwell
where
there
is
no Competition,
all
the Minifters
being only
of
one way
:
Some
when the
ill
Confequents are moreon one
fide,
and tome where they are more on the
other.
And Rituals
give place
to
Morals
Go
learn
what that
meaneth,
I
will have
mercy
and
not
facrifce.
You
fhall anfwer for
your own
Souls
:
Neither
Parents
nor
Princes have
an abfolute
or
a
deftroying Power
over
them, nor any that
divefleth ou
of
the
Charge or Government
of your
felves.
Prudence therefore
in filch
Cafes
muff
look
to
Order,
to
PubJck
Good,
and to your
own Edification,
and preferve
all as
far
as
you
are
able
;
and God
will' accept you
if
you do your belt, though interefs'dFa&ions
be offended with you.
XXI. It
is
a
great
Doubt
among Cafuills.
Whether
ant
-when
the Breach
of
Hu;
mane Laws obligeMen
to
any
other than
Humane Penalties
?
So
far
as
God
is
of-
fended
and
his
Law broken by the breach
of
Mans,
fo
far
Punilhment from God
alto
is
deferved;
but no further. And
a
Council at
Teletam
hath
an
exprefs
Ca.
non, that
left Subje
&s
by the Churches
Laws fhould have their
Souls
enioared
in
Guilt
towards
God, it
is
declared
that
their Provincial Canons bind only ad
prenam,
non
ad
cùlpam,
tobear the Penalty, 'but
not
to conclude men
Sinners.
The
Expref-
fons
want
skill,
but the Meaning
is
manifeft.
XXII. The
Perlons belief
that
an evil
Courfe
is
lawful, maketh
it
not
lawful
to
him
:
The
effé
is
before the
faire
:
If
God's
Law
have
forbidden or
commanded;
Man's Errour may enfnare
himfelf
in fin
,
but cannot change the Law
of
God.
XXIII.
Some that
I
love
and honour, that
have heretofore been enfnared
in
A-
nabaptiftry and
Separation, in the
fenfoof
their Errour
(as
is
ufual) warp to the
contrary Extream,
and fear
not the
dreadful
guilt' of
perfwading
Cltre's faithful
kb-
sifters
to lay
by
the
Sacred
Office
which'
they
are devoted
to ;
yea
,
and would
blind
oea
to
believe
there
is no
need,
fave
only to fpeak to particular
perlen,
privately
;
whereby
they
fhould be
a
year in (peaking
to
thole whom they may
(peak
to
in
an
hoar,
and
few be
able
to do it, and perhaps
be
thruft
out
with wrath
by
the Parifh
Mini=
Bets,
as creeping
into
Heafes tq(educe
filly
women,
or reproached and
fufpe&ed
for
k.
They
fay
truly, that
he
that hath gone
their
former.
way
of
unjuft Separation,
is
like
one tharin
travel
teeth here
a
Leg
and
their an Arm lye in
his
way, and therefore
Mould fear
to go on in danger.
But
I
tell
them further,
he
that readeth
Church
Ri-
flery
and
Councils,
what work
Church Tyranny
and /lrizing
to
be
greatefi,
bath made
with Kings and Kingdoms, Churches and
Families,
and
the
Blood
of
an
hundred
thoufand
Chriftians, for about
a
thoufanrl years at leaft,
is
like one
that in
his
tra-
vel
Teeth
here
a
hundred
Carkaffes, and
there
an
hundred, and there a Bream
of
Blood, and there
a
City ruined,
and there a
good
King fitrrendring
his
Crown
as
an
All
of
Penance
(asLadovicus
Pius
did), and there
the Streets covered
with the
Blood and Carkaffes
of
Monks and others, and then call
into the
Rivers,by
the
wars
and
broils
of
contending
Bithops
(as at
Antioch,
8cc)
and
if
this
Man
will go
on,
he
overcometh another
kindof warning than
[bere
a
Leg
and
there
an Arm
]. Read but
theHiftory throughly,
and judge. But
what will not Ignorance make men
fay?
XXIV.
Some
think that
if
Sacramental Communion only
were
left
free,it would
alone
heal
moll ofour
Engliih
differences.
I
confefs,
I
that
think Men
may
be
for
-
ced
to
hear and
be catechized
,
do think the great
Priviledges
of
Sacramental
Communion, and
a
fealed
Pardon,
fhould be given to
none
by Cramming ,
or
as
a
Drench;