168 The Rea f nablene f the Eflablifbed Church, notwithflanding all the calls for greaterftric`nef's, andcare everfince the Reformationfrom Popery ; and noground of hope, that ever any filch thing as a Regular Difcipline will willinglv, and out of choice be brought in : brow it is the People's duty pubticqy to hear theirTeftirnony againft thisfatal neglect, Therefore, It is their duty to fepirate from this Church. What confequence there is in this, I cannot apprehend. Becaufe the Church ought to be, as it were, the Porch of flea- çen, is therefore a feparation neceflary, which cannot poffibly contribute to the making it fo ? and which is not allow- able, fuppoling it could effetually make it fo ? Becaufe there are Prophane Per- fons , who profefs themfelves of the Efahlifhed Church (as men of no Reli- gion molecommonly will) is it therefore neceffary todepart from it, though You can live in the coJnmunirn of it without hazarding your own falvation, or being defiled by their Wickednefs; and tho'' in the Churches You fet up in oppolition to it, there will certainly be, as You your (elves know, men of as bad grin, ciplcs , and as bad defigns, carrying for-
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