Hoadly - BX5136 H6

o6 The Reafon'ableñef Communion intimates, as ifConftant Communion were lawful, and therefore; necefrary ; which is contrary to your inward fen/É. This it intimates more ftrongly than Confiant Communion intimates any of thofe things You have fixed upon it and multitudes on all fides, You know, are a£fually perfuaded that it doth fo. From hence, therefore, I fhould think, when I read Your reafonings againfi Confiant Communion , that , according to You, Occafional Communion mutt be unlawful. But when I read your defen- ces of your Occafional communion, I find, that this is fo neceffary to the demon- ftration of your charity to the Efablifbed Church, that it is your indifpenfable Ium ty , notwithftanding this Circumfance. Now, How much better, and greater a demonfiration of your regards to Peace and Charity, would your Confiant Com- munion be ? And , therefore, If this Circumflance ought not to hinder You from fo poor a demonftration of your charity as Occafional Communion ; how can You think, that fuch like Circum- fiances ought to hinder You from fo much greater a demonftration of your Love to Unity and Concord, as Your C

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