Y o6 The Iieafonablenefß good, propofed at a diflance, (hall juf}ify it, and make it eligible ? No Men have inveigh'd more againfF it than you, and your Predecefrours : No Man bath load- ed it with more Aggravations than Mr. Baxter: And yet indeed it muff be a moil: trifling and infignificant matter, if fuch Reafons as this can change it's Nature, and diffolve the Obligations Men are under to avoid it. We are obliged not to Peek the Glory ofGod in all ways: And it is unlawful to endea- vour or defign the Amendment, or Ad- vantage of a Chúrch by all Methods And therefore to feparate from a Church with which You can hold Communion in all Chriftian Offices without finning, under pretence of bringing it to more perfetion, is unlawful. If you could not join with the Church of England in the Qfjïces of Religion without finning againft your Confciences, this turns Separation from a Sin into a Virtue, by making it a necefiäry Duty: But ftnce you can Communicate without finning, and yet Separate, I fee not what can make it neceffary, or excufable. But I find that you are often endea- vouring to avoid this difficulty, by laying
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