ofCONFORMITY. IO5 it, and fill the World with Confuflon ? Or, would it Sandify fuch a Pra&ice, to fay, That this is done in order to make it more complete and perfe& ? So likewife, fuppofing a Church to be tole- rable (as this Argument gives us leave) and nothing to be required in order to Communion with it, but what may law- fully be complied with: tho' it be not fo perfect as it might be, and as you with it, yet, will it not be finful to feparate from it, and difunite Chriflians from one another ? Will the End propofed iàn&ify an evil which hath fo very pernicious, and fad confequences ? and will it be fuflicient to fay, We feparate in order to bring this Church togreater perfellion? When the Queftion is put, Why do you divide from a Church of Chriftians already fettled ? and why are you the occafon offo much Variance and Strife in the Land? Will it be a proper Anfwer, Not becaufe we cannot join in Communion with it (for this we can do as well as our Pious Progenitors) but becaule we hope by this means to bring this Church to a better eftate, and a greater degree of perfe&ion ? Is Separation then fo inno- cent, and harmlefs a thing, that any good
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