Owen - BX5085 O84x 1681

Ought to be wined withal. 19 3 another dayly, leap any be hardened through the Deceitfl- nef ofSin ; Or comply with. the Command of our Sa- viour, ifthy Brother offend thee, tell hint o f it between him and thee. By this means likewife is the Purity of Com- munion loft, and thofe received as principal Members of Churches, who by all the Rules of Primitive Dif ipline, ought to be call out ofthem. Wherefore this allo is to be conldered in the Choice we are to make of what Churches we will joyn our felves unto, as unto confiant. compleat Communion, and in whole Communion we will abide. For thefe things are Matters of Choice, and confift in Voluntary free As ofObedience. With thole untowhom they are not fo, who would on the one hand have them to be things that men maybe compelled unto, and ought fo to be ; or on the other that followno other Guidance in them but outward Circumftances from the Times and Places where they areborn and inhabit,I will have no Conteft. It follows from hence allo, That, Where there are-manyChurches wherein thefè things arefound, whereon we may lawfully and ought in Du- ty to joyn with Come of them , in particular , every one is obliged to joyn himfelfunto fuch a Church, as whole Principles and Pra&ifes are molt fuited unto his Edification. B b CHAP.

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