104 The Reafonableneß hath fome defeóts, and (lands in\need of fome amendments. If it were into- lerable, than that would be theReafon of your Separation, and not the profpea of Amendment, and Reformation. This is the fame Church withwhich theOldPuritans thought confiant Communion to be lawful, and nece(%ary. What therefore this Argu- ment,asdiilina from all others,intends, is; not that you cannot Communicate with this Church, as the OldPuritans did, but, that finding no likelyhood of comparing afarther Reformation in it by Communica- ting with it, you feparate from it as the moil; likely way to obtain this Reforma- tion. Now fuppofing this to be the like- Left method of bringing this to effet, yet it feems to me to be a method not allowed by Reafon, or Chriflianity. T will not be pofitive in the matter, but, according to the bell of my underfland- ing, and the prefent view I have of it, this is doing evil , that good may come, Suppofing a Government to be tolerable, and to require nothing but what may lawfully be complied with ; tho' it have fornething in it which you could with amended, yet, would it not be Rebellion. and a linful Difoledience, to rife upagainfl: it,
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