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Mi,fi'ml¿,e
of the
poynt
fchi
fine, the
caufe
of
breaki,rg
peace.
might
:
Let
become
of
peace
what
will,for that that
the
Scrip-
ture
accounts
fchi!hae,
certainly we
are
bound by
alllawfull
meanes according
to
the
Covenint to
oppofe.
But
1
befeech
you
Confider this
firft
;
Whether
if
any man
that
is
a
member
of
a
Church
;
for this
is
cryed
out
of,
that
whofoever
flail
depart
from the Church; that
is -acknowled-
ged
by
himfelfe
a
true Church,
and
efpeciallyfhail
joyne with
others,,this man
is a
fchifmatick.
For to underhand
this
aright
,
That there
may
not be
the
breaking
of
more peace then
need.Suppofe
that there
be
Tome
men truly godly
and
confcientious
tharare
in
a
Church
;
but
there
is
fomething done
in
the Church that
they cannot
be-
lieve
to
be
the mind of Chrift
;
Nay after
all examination, af-
ter
prayer, after feeking
to
God,
yet
they
cannot fee
it to
be
the
mind
of
Chrifl,
but they fhould
fin
if
they fhould joyne
with them
;
they
can
teilifie
to God, their
owne Confciénces
witnefíing for
them, that they
would gladly joyne with
fuch a
Church
in
all
the
wayes
of Gods
worship, but
in fuch
and
fuch
wayes
they
cannot
without
fm
to
their Confciences;
they la-
bour
to
informe.themfelves, they goe
to the Elders,
goe
to
o-
thers
in all
humility to thew
their
doubts
in this
thing
;
And after
the
receiving
of
reafons
troth them they
depart,
and
they doe
ittConfcience to God
examine
them
between
God
and
their
foules,
and pray
over
them that
God
would
re-
veale
there
things unto
them
if
they be
his
mind.
Now
after
all this is
done
,
yet
if
they cannot fee, what would
you have
thefe men doe
;
Suppofe
there
be
a
hundred of
them,they
can-
not
communicate, yet they
are
not
prefently
to
rend
from
the
Congregation,but
to
wait a while
to
lee whether
God
will con-
vince
them,
now
after
all means
ufed,
and
they
cannot
be
con-
vinc'r,fhall thefe
men
livewithout the Ordinanceof
the
Sacra-
ment
all
the
dayes
of
their
lives?Hath
Chrift
fo
tyed
a
member
of
a
Congregation, that
if
he cannot without
fin
to
him joyne
Zvi
h
the
Church, that he
mill
never
,joyn
with
any
other,
truly
there
had
need be
deer
warrant
for this if
any
one fhall
affirnme
it
:
But
now fuppofe
thefe fhould
in all
humility delire that
they
might
have
liberty together, to
joyn
in
the
Ordinances
of
Chrifl