ofCONFORMITY. England could do. You muff, therefore, acknowledge that Confiant Conmunion,on neither fide, doth thus reprefent Chrift's Inflitution defècrtive ; or, that this is not fufficient to render it unlawvful; or, that you are guilty of this in your Confant Practice. But the truth of the matter is this : Neither your Practice, nor the Prac- tice of the ChurchofEngland, doth repre- fent the Inflitutionof our Lord any more defective, than He defigned it : For He only defigned to ordain , that there íhould be Publick Affemblies of Chrftians; and that the Holy Communion fhould be celebrated in thofe Affembties. All the Circumfiances of thefe Af emblies , it is plain, He left to be determined by the Governours of his Church and People, ac- cording to the Notions of Decency, and the variousCuftoms, of different Nations. And, in the enumeration ofthefe Circum- fiances, I think, I have often, in my read- ing,found your own Mr. Baxter mention- ing Geflure, as well as Time and Place, and the like ; and affirming, that it comes within the bounds of the Authority of our Governours. To this A rgument,therefore, anfwer plainly thus, Conflánt Comm .lion with the ChurchofEngland, reprefents N 4 tl 199
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