1..1111.101...V Spiritual Peace and Comfort 273 maize all gainfayers : and thefe Additions muft be the peculiar Mark of their Church as Rornili : and then all that are not of that Church., that is, that own not thofe fuper-added Points are not of the true ChurchofChrift, if they muft be Judges. Yea among our felves Math the devil ufed fuccefsfully this Plot ; What ConicGin of the pureft Church bath not fame more then is in Scripture ? The aloft mo- deft muft mend the phrafe and fpeak plainer, and fomewhat of their own in it; not excepting our own molt reformed Confeffion. Yea and where Modefly reffrains men from put- ting all fuck inventions and explications in their Creed, the Devil perfwades men that they being the Judgements of Godly Reverend Divines( nodoubt tobe Reverenced, valued and heard) it is almoft as much as if it were in the Creed, and therefore who- ever diffentethmuft be notedwith a black coal, and you muff difgrace him, and avoid Communion with him as an Heretick. Hence lately is your Union , Communion and the Churches Peace laid upon cer- tain unfcearchable Myfteries about Predeftination the order and objects of Gods Decrees, the manner of the Spirits fecreteft operations on the foul, the Nature of the Wils effentiall Liberty, and its power of felfdeterminingthe Divineconcourfe,derermina- tion or predeftination of mans and all ocher Crea- tures anions, &c. That he is fcarcely to be account- ed a it member for our fraternal Communion that differs from us herein. Had it not been for this one Plot, the Chriítian Faith had beenkept pure ; Re- ligionhad been one; the Church had been one; and the hearts of Chriftians had been more one then they
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