Ought to be joined withal. t 85 Variety; for being ignorant ofthe Dfipline of the Go- fpel, and fo efteeming it infufficient unto their Defn, they have madeno end ofcoyning`isles unto themselves. To fuppofe that our Lord Jefus Chrift, who in this Church flaw according unto his infinite Wifdom, hath ereCted the moll perfect Society for the molt pert Ct- Ends, of Religion, ofObedience towards God, ofLove and Ufefulnefs among our fëlves, lath not appointed a Difcipline, and given koles concerning its Adminiftrati- on, for the Prefervationofthat Society, and the attain- ingof thole Ends, is highly injurious unto his Honour and Glory. Where therefore there is a Church or any Society that pretends fo to be, wherein there is an titter NegleJ of this Dfipline ofChriil, or the Eflabliihment ofano- ther, not adminiftred by the Laws, and Rules that he bath prefcribed, no Difciple of Chrifi can be obliged to joyn unto, or to continue in the total foie Communion of fuck a Church. And whereas there are two Parts of this Difcipline of Chrifl ; That which is Private, a- mong the Members of the Church, for the Exercife and Prefervation ofLove; and that which is Tublick, in and by the Authority of the Rulers of the Church, for the Prefervation of Purity and Order, a neglect in either of them, doth much impeach the Fundamental Confiitution ofa Church as unto its Pradife. 2. There are fundry other things which belong unto this Difcipline in General, which are of great confidera- tion in the Difcharge of the Dutywe enquire into. A- mong them are, (i.) That conftant Diférence be put between the A a Good
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