Of CONFORMITY. Q03 then, it is not our duty, nor lawful to give all the encouragement We can, to Peace, and Order , and Unity ; and all the credit We can to a good Eftablifhment : but, on thecontrary, a duty incumbent up- on us to give encouragement, and credit, to all feparations, tho' never founreafona- ble ; and toall the confequences of them. 2. Conflant Communion is, I confefs, a practical difinning owni , and condemning all other worfhippingAfemblies ; I mean, fuch as have feparated from the Church of England. I fay, it is a practical diforvn- ing them, thus far, that it is a practical declaration, that we judge Con1ant Com- munion with the Church of England to be lawful ; and preferable to a fparation. But then, this is confi{tent, to a tittle, with the law of God, and the Charity of a Chriftian. It is as lawful, and as charitable, to make fuch a declaration in our actions, as it is to make it in our words: and I never heard yet, that it was either unlawful, or uncharitable, for any perfon, perfuaded of the Univerfal Advantages of Confiant Communion, and the evil confequences , and un- reafonablenefs öf Jeparation, to de- 1áre hin;feif fo to be. Nor can I be. per-
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