(_277 ) tinue.Communion among them in Faith and Love,. there is herein a perpetual eftablifhment of the Rule of mu- tual Forbearance in fuch Cafés ; nothing being con- demned but Impofition.r on oneanother; nothing com- mended but an Abftinence from the ufé of Liberty in the cafe ofScandal or Offence. I'had therefore Reafon to fay, that thefalfe Apoiles were the only Impofeers, that is, ofthings not neceffary by vertue of any divine In- ftitution. And if the Author infïnuate, that the true Apoftles werefilch Inipofers alto, becaufe of the Deter- mination they made of this Difference, he will fail in hisProofof it. It is true they impofed on, -or charged the Confèiences ofmen, with the obfervance ofall the Inftitutioris and Commands ofChrift, but ofother things none at all. . Thedaft things which he endeavours an Anfwer unto on this occafion lies in thofe words. The yewifh Chri= flfans were left unto their own Liberty, provided they did not impofe on others ; and the Diffinters at this day deftre no more then the Gentile Church did (viz.) not,to be im- pofeed on to obferve thofi things which they are not fatisfiécl it is the MindofChrifi, Aonld be impofed on them. So is my fenfè, in the places referred unto, reported, Nor (hall I contend about it, fo as that the left Claufè be changed ; for my Wordsare not, they are not fatisfed it is the Mind ofChrif, that theyfould be impofed on them; but they were not fatisfzed it is the Mind ofChr/ they f ouldObferve. This refpec`i:s the things themfelves, .. the other only their.Impofition. And one Reafon againft the Impofition. gppofed, is that the things themfelves im- pofed, are fuch as the Lord Chrift would not have us obferve ; becaufe not appointedby himfelf. But
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