Hoadly - BX5136 H6

Y7.1 The Rearoraablenep Church, as with your own Churches ; I am almofr alharned to fay any more upon fo weak an argument, and {ball only refer you (if any thing farther be needful) to what I have more largely dif- courfed upon the Third Argument, with which this may be joined, for it muff ¡rand, or fall with it. In Anfer to that, I have fliewn, That your People may be of the Church of England, and frill think the Difiipline of it defiaive, and frill continue to preis for a Reformation of it ; That you live in confiant Communion with as imperfea Churches as that Eftablijhed That to feparate in order to a farther Re- formation, is not reafonable, or allow- able ; That your Separation, and the Methods taken in it, are not likely Me- thods of bringing about the leafr of your detired Alterations ; and that, if Separa- t`ion, on fuck accounts, be neceffary, or law- ful, there mull be a perpetual ground for Separation in the Chriflian Church. And I hope you will find fomewhat fatisfaaory on thefe Heads, and what is fufficient to Thew the little force of this Argument. The Seventh Argument in defence of your People, hands thus, Many of the Laity are afraidof finning sn

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