240 The right manner ofSat:Ebbing theNan--iiO--afgo world ? No faith Chrift, not In; for then the t! u h is, if all Godly men should wholly withdraw from wicked men, and beleeve that they may nor live among them, they could riot live in the world. If you did beleeve it were your duty not fomuch as to live neer a wicked man, nor to have any thing to`do in any kindof converfe with him, there would be noWheat growing in this field of the worldhere ; and therefore you muff be con- tent, when you live where the preaching of the Gotpel is, and the feed brings forth good fruit in tome , and in others it brings forth Tares, you mutt not be offended by this, that here in this world God cloth nor by tome vifible tiroke of judgment come and alike them dead, or that God doth not take forcecourfe that there thould be a full separationhere, but that they might live together cil theday of judgment. ; here I fay you fhall not have fuch a ful feparation ; fo that you fee it carries a very fair fenfe to take the field co be the world, and the. Kingdom of Heaven there to be the preaching of the Gospel in any place, and fo we mutt be content while we live in this world, to be where wic- ked and ungodly men, are. But is doth not follow from this place that we are to have converfe in the clofett communion, in Church-communion with wicked men, to be made one body by eating the fame Bread, anddrinking the fame Wine ; it holds not forth filch dote Communion as this is ; to that there's little ftrength can be taken from that place, but /till it holds that where- foever there is the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, there mutt be a holy communion of Saints. Objeff. The Scripture only faith, Let us examine our felves. Anfro. I grant, for the benefit ofmine own foul, I mutt look toexamine my felfmore efpecially ; but now for another I' am but only fo tar bound to look to him as to keep my felf clean ; it is true, I am not bound to go and pry into his life and all his waies, fo as to force him to give an account of things that are fecret, but I am bound to keep a watch, and if any thing be done chat offends me, then I am bound to go to him according to che former Rule of Chriti, and if he appears to be wicked, then I am hound to fee him purged from the Congregation ; for take but that ocher text in I Col'. S. 6. Anocv you not that a little
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