Hoadly - BX5136 H6

of CONFORMIT`. mon n'orfhip, theyhadnofitter namefor, than Idolatry, Popery, Aritichrifianifn, S'uperß-i- tion, mill-rvorfhip, &c. Abridg. p. 96. Be you your felves, therefore, the judges whether, if this temper of Mind be the true ground of the Separationof thispart of the People we are now fpeaking of, this Separation be juf}ifable before God or, in Other words, be built upon a good foundation. And be you your felves judges, whether it be reafonable, and be- coming for you rather to court an Union and clofe 'Correfpondence with fuck Perfons, than with the EflablifhedChurch. Somewhat is to be faid for the Errours of well-meaning Perfons , difpofed to 'Unity, and ready to receive the Truth in the love of it : But God can never ap- prove of Errours joined with Rancour, and Uncharitablenefs ; or of a Separation founded upon a groundlefs abhorrence of what is Ejlablifhed, and a refolute averle -' nefs to admit of any Arguments in the vindication of it. Thus have I confidered all the Argu- ments I find offered in Vindication of your People ; and have endeavoured to fly°w, that they are not, fuffcient toprove their Separation from the Effabltthed Church ne- M 2 ccffary

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