( 215 )` nently fail herein, it is the Duty of others to withdraw from them. For, (3.) Every private mans Confefíion is included in the publick Profefiiort of the Church or Affembly where -- unto he belongs ; And, (4) Onene& or Agreement in the Truth, whereby we come to have one Lord, one Faith, one B.zptfine, is the Foundation ofall ChurchCommunion ; which if it be taken away, the whole Fabrick of it falls to the Ground. Ifthe Trumpet in any Church, as unto thefe things, gives an uncertain found, no man knows how to prepare himfelf for the Battle, or to fight the good fight: ofFaith. It will be laid that this cannot be juftly charged on the Church of England, yea not without open Wrong and Injuftice. For íhe bath a fixed invariable Standard of Truth in the 39 Articles which contain its publick Profeffionof Faith, and the Rule of its Communion. Wherefore I fay, that it is not theprimitive Conlitution of the Church, nor its legal Eftablifhment that are re- fleetedon; but only the prefent praltife of fo many as makes it neceffary for men to take theCare oftheir own Edification on themfelves. But here allo, force things. are to be obferved. I. Thefe ..Articles at prefent are exceeding defe five, in their beinga fixed Standardofthe ProfeffionofTruth,, with'refpe& unto thofe Errors and Herefies which have invaded and peffered the Churches, fine their framing; andefiablifhment. We know it was the confhant inva- riable Cuftom of the Primitive Churches, upon the E- mergency of any new Errors or Herefaes, to add unto the
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