Hoadly - BX5136 H6

Of CONFORMITY. fidered by you in the firfl place ? Ifonly with perfect ones, or thole in which there is not an averfion to a farther Reforma- tion, where will you find them ? In what happy place, in what climate, free from prejudice and paílìon, are they feen ? I only wifh you would confider your own praaice, and fee whether you can well reconcile it to this Principle we are now upon ; and look into the Nature and Tendency ofthisPrinciple, and fee ifyou èan eafily reconcile it to Reafon, and Chriflianity. This is all I have to fay to it at prefent ; and permit me to flint it up with a Recapitulation of what I think I have proved. Since, therefore, I have (hewn, that You, and Tour People, may continue in the Communionof theChurchof Englandwith- out thinking it fo perfect as to need no Amendments, and without forfaking the Caufe, in which, you fay, you are engag- ed ; it appears, that there is no nece/fity from hence, that you fhouldfeparate from it. Since, as I have obferved,you have not attained to perfection, or a greater degree of it, in the Separate Churches you have ereaed, but communicatewith imperfect Churches that (land in need of a farther Refors 139

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