I Again{\ fcpa– ration from our ·Cllurch. I 3 .. 4 1 ____ 'I_he_S_m_ii_Jt_s_fu_r_e___\ defcnceoffume groundlcife fanciesj from whef.lcc Satpan bufily £hives to toll him our, to fepara– tion. y\Tl1ich .c0urfc of ieparating f~orn, and .condemning our Church, in the judgement 0f ·our fince-refl: Divines,is full of pride;contention, ·.and·confufion. · For firfi:,-certaine it is,our Church,in that mo!l: ! exquifite andworthy confeffionof Faith conrai- 1 ned in the Articles of Religion, cloth hold and profc!fe all fubfiantiall ·points of Divinitie as foundly,as any Church in theWorld, none; cx– .ceptcd, neitherin this Age, nor in the primitjve timesof the Church. ... · · SccQndly, it 'bathcommunionwith, a·rid tefi:i-· monieof ail other true Churches. . Thirdly, in it are to be had the mcancs of fa!– vation, in apowerfull and plentifull manner: 'and j in the bowels thereof, even they that goe out of our Church, if they be trulyconverted, received that precio,us and ble!fcd vigour, w_hieh is able to ' quicken ·tbem to eternall life. · Fourthly, a ·Church may be a true Church, though it fhuu~d ·have fpots, and biemilbes; though there be fomc Swine andDogges in it. · In .S. Pauls time, the Corimhians werecalled tbe Church of God, 1 Cor.t. r., 2.. And yet, at that very time,1'.•ere fome in an Herefie.,fome in Inceft, {Qme that had not repented of their fiit_hirrcffe, z£or.1 2. 2 o, z r. The like may 'be fa id of tbe ·C~hurclJes of Alia; R .t'V•2. 3~ · · Fifd1Iy, though outward profperitie)worldly honour, and p!c:ntie, be ·rather .the lot _<}f falfe, ' . heretical!,
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