Of CONFORMITY. IX; Loving and Peaceable Difpofitions of his Difciples ? Without Peace and Love, all the Perfection in the World is not lovely in his Eyes: and with them, imperfeaion is by him accounted perfeEtion. They are the chief and principal things that compote the Beauty and exact Symme- try of a Church, and in vain do we talk ofmaking a Churchperfeti whilft we are doing what muft inevitably ruine that in which it's greateft Glory muft confift. I fay not that all who Separate are Vncha.s citable: but I fay, that they give occafion (and fuck anoccafion as never fails) to all the inftances of ZJncharitablene,fis and Paffîor amongft Perfons of the differing Parties : And this, I fay, all Chrifl~ians are bound indifpenfably to avoid, and more ftrongly obliged to avoid it, than they are to Rudy the Perfeaion of the outward Forms of Church Governments andWer]hip,fuppofing them but tolerable. And this the Old Puritans Teem highly fenfible of ; and have left behind therri nothing that gives us any reafon to think, that it was their opinion, that either length of Time, and waiting for Amend ments,or any faint hopes ofbringing them to pafs by Separation, coulddiffolve the 4bob 1A Y.4i T d . INIIIMIEr
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