kind it maybe, is no more8chifine than it is ,Adultery.And ifonTome meris Arbitrary Conftitutionof thisRule, and the Diflènt ofothers from it, fuch Differences and Divi- fions enfue , as . feem to have the general Nature of Wilke, the Evil ofthem belongs unto thofe alone, by whom the Rule is framed. If indeed Tome fhould frame fuch a Rule of Church Communion, becaufe they fup- pofe theyfee Caufe for it, and would then leave it unto others to obferve,as they fee Cauf, if it be not of Life, it would not be liableunto much abufe. But whereas our Lord Jefus Chrift hath given one and the fame Rule equally unto all his Difciples in there things, namely, that they fhould obferve and do, all that he bath com- manded them; for force of them on any pretence or Plea whatever, as of their being the Church, or the like, arbitrarily to frame a Rule oftheir own, as an Addition unto his, obliging all others unto a ftri& Obfervance of it, becaufe they have fo framed it, is that which neither the Scripture nor Primitive Antiquity know any thing of I will not enquire what is that `Power and .Authority whereby this Rule is conftituted and confirmed, nor in whom it doth refide. The Name of the Church is ufu- ally pretended and pleaded. But before any can be concerned herein, all that hath been pleaded for the true ftate and nature of Evangelical Churches muff be over- thrown, which will not be done fpeedily. Railings, Revilings, and Reproaches will not do it. But until this is done, it will be believed, that everyparticular congregation, is indifpenfibly obliged in itfelf toobferve and do all the Commands of Chrift; and is left at Li- berty fo to regulate the outward circumftances of its Worfhip
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