i o8 The Reafonablenefr let it be in the Cafe before us, bç caufe it can be no otherwife; and becauCe, if it were otherwife, there would hardly be a Confiant Communicant left in this Church; nor could there be one in any Church in the World. Is your Confiant Communion with your own Churches a Prac`lical Declaration that they are perfect? Ifnor, why íhould it be more fo, when it is exercifed with the Church ofEngland, than when withyour own ? But it willcon- firm forceChurch-men in an opinion, that the Church i perfeF1. None, but fuck as will think fo, whether you Communicate with it or not, and very few there are who do think fo, at leaft, who will fay fo. But fuppofing it would fettle them in the beliefthat there is noneedofAmend- ments, there would be this advantage in it, that as they would reh(1 alterations which you think for the better, fo they would likewife any for the worfe ; and you might be fecure the Church would not prove worfe upon your hands thro' theirmeans : which, confideringall things, is a very happy fècurity. But farther, Would this Confequence ofyour Confiant Communion (fuppofing it certain, whereas it is nothing but imaginary) be a Rea- fonabc
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