{ z2 ) our refraining from total Communion with Parochial .A mblies : Ifthe Reader will be pleafèd to take a re- veiw of what is faid in the preceding Difcourfe unto this Head of our Charge in feveral Chapters, he will eafilyperceive that either the Reafonings of the Doe1or reach not the Caufe in hand, or are infufficient to jufti- e his Intention, which I mutt fay, though I am un- willing to repeat it, is byall ways and means, to Ioad us with the Guilt and difreputation ofSchifine. That which 'I firft meet withal directly unto this Purpofe is, Part 2. pag. 157. The Forbearance ofCom- iauinion with the Church of england in its `Parochial ,Aj femblies (that is in the way and manner before deferi bed) he oppofeth with twoArguments. The firft re- fpeêlsthole who allowóccafonal Communion with Paro- chial Churches but will not comply with them in that which is confiant and abfolute. For he lays, if the firfi he lawful, the latter is neceffary, from the commands we have toprefeerve the Reace andUnity of the Church. And the not doing it, he lays, is one of the provoking fins of the Non-conformiffs , but whether it be a fin orno isfub 7udice5 . that it isprovoking unto fonze is fufficiently evi- dent. I (hall not make this any part of my Contek. Thofe who have fo expreffed their Charity, ás to give countenance unto this pretended Advantage, `will eafily free themfelves from the force of this Inference. For it molt be remembered that this confiant total Communi- on, clothnotonly include a conscientious Obfervance of all things appointed to be done by the Rules or. Canons in thofe Aflemblies , but a Renunciation alto of all other ways and means of Edification by joint Commu- nion,. as unlawful and Evil. And it will be hard to trove that on a.Concefon ofthe Lawfulnefs: ofCommu- nb a
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