( '97 come to paf at this day in the World. Now the Rule of the Communion required, is the Law of the Land, the 'Book of Canons, with the *brick of the Common Prayer. Ifaccording to the Prefcriptions,. Directions, and Commands, given in them, we do joyn our felves in Communionwith Parochial Affemblies, thenare we judged conformable to the Church ofEngland, and not elfe. By and according unto thefe, are all enquiries made concerning Communion with the Church; and if they are obferved, the return is, Omnia bene. Now this7ule bath no divine Warrant for its Inflitution, noExample in the Primitive Churches, efpecially confidering what are the things which it obliges us unto ; nor can be made confident with the Liberty wherewith Chrifl hath made his Difciples free. A Diffent from this Rule, is as far from Schifete as any man need define it. For nothing is fo, but what refpe&s fome Command or Inftitution of Chrifl, which immediately affects the Confcience. It is true, the Lord Chri fl hath Commanded that Love, U- nion, Peace and Order, whereofSchzfnze is a diflurbance, and whereunto it is oppofite. But they are that Love, Union and Order which he hath appointed. To fup- pole that he bath left it unto Men, to invent and ap- point a new kind of Union and Order, which is done in the Rule we treat of which he never required, and then to oblige his Difciples unto the Obfervation ofit, be it what it will, fo as that their diflènt from it fhould be Criminal, and that for this Reafon, that it is fo appoint- ed of men, is no fmall miflake. And if all that Love, Union, Peace and Order, which the Lord Jefus hath enjoyned his Difciples, may be punCually obferved, without any refpeCunto this Rule, as a A,i,le ofChurch Communion, to diffent from it, whatever fault ofanother kind
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