15 riion in lime ,/Ifs of Divine Worship, it will be ne -, ceflary for men to oblige themfelves unto total conftant Communion, with a Renunciation and Condemnation. of all other ways and means of joint Edification. It may alfb be lawful to do a thing with forte refpeas and Limitations, atforce times, which it may not be lawful to do abfolutely and alwayes:: It may be neceffary fromoutward circumstances to ado that fometìmes which is lawful in itfelf, though not neceffary from itfelf; it . can never be neccry to do that which is unlawful. Of the firfl: fort they efteem occafional Communion,, and the other of the latter.' Some time is fpent in taking offanException unto this Inference from the Pra&ife of our Saviour, who had occafional Comnïnnion with the Jews in the Temple and. Synagogues, which he proves to have been confiant and . perpetual, and not occafional only, and that he prefcri- bed the fame Pradife unto his Difciples.. But I think . this labour might have been fpared. For there is no- thing more clear and certain, then - that. our Lord Jesus Chriec did jóyn with the Jews in the ©bfervance ofGods. Inf itutions among them;; on the one hand; and on the other, that he never loyned:with them in the obfervance- oftheir own Trvditions' and `hharafaical Impofätions, but warned all his Difeiples to avoid them and refufe them,, whole :Example, we delire to follow ; for concerning, all fuch Obfervances iathe Church, he pronounced that fentence, Every plant that my Heavenly Father hath not plantedpall be rootednp. But the Donor proceeds unto a fecond Argument, pag. 163; to the fame Purpófe, from,' as be calls it, the particular force ofthat.Text,, Phil. 3., r6..A far as we. haves
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