Mif1.kg of the 'point Schifm the cásifeoffreal gfeace. Chrill,they hold all the foundations of this church,yea they ac- count them brethren,they look upon them as Godly,& in thofe Ordinances wherein they can,theywil joyn with thetr,but they cannot in fuch and fuch,& they mutt either joyn in force orh,:r fellowship or they mull be without thofe Ordinances all their dayes. Now if there menthall in their lives 'appear Godly, and walk peaceably towards others, fo far as they can fee the mind of God : Do you think in your consciences that this is the Schilme that is fpoken againft in Scripture that we are too; pofe, and that that meri fo oppofe now which they call Schifm : I would put the cafe thus, In the Bishops time there. were a company you» know that were accounted Alm- Can form ffs which were very Godly men, they could not con - forme to kneeling, fuppofe, or in any other ceremony,eicher in Baptifme, or the Supper of the Lord, and fo they could not joyn with the Congregations in the Supper of the Lord, upon this the Bishops called them Schifmaracks, and ;t was upon no other ground they faid. Now there are many of our brethren at this day, yea I beleeve moll of the Godly Minihers in England within a few years did account thofe men t`'a- could not joyn at Sacraments becaufe of kneeling, and the croffe to be in an error ; I fay; the mollGodly men in the kingdom did beleeve it, and I beleeve many do fo hill. But you will fay, Though with drawing from a congregati- on indeed, which they could not joyn withall without fin,that was not Schifm, yet if they.hadegathered into another Congre- gation,that had been Schi;m,then this fatisfi es. Fi:.11, In the point of negative Schifine, but for pofitive Schifm, to that I put this confide ration to you, onely that we might a little mollifie mens fpirics Suppofe thef men might have had leave from the State ; As fuppofe this Law had been made,that all men whole confciences cannot be brought to f ab- mit to kneeling at Sacrament ,» and the eroífe in Baptifme, and cannot acknowledge the Authority of Prelats, that they (hall have in filch places in the City, fuch meetings,. and»fuclr Congregations, where they !hall injoy the Sacrament without that CeteFnonies, and without the ackaaowledgement of the autho 4`79
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