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SECT. II. PArt 2. See. 21. pag. 176. Our Author proceeds to renew his Charge of Schifete or finful Separa- tion againff thole, who though they agree with î , faith he, in thefubjtantials of'eligion, yet deny any Com- munion with our Church to he lawful. But apprehending that the fate ofthe Queffion here infinuated, will not be admitted, and that it would be difficult to find them out, who deny any Communion with the ChurchofEng- land to be lawful ; he addes that he doth not (peak of any improper ./Ills of Communion, which Dr. O. calls Communion in Faith and Love; which they allow to the Church ofEngland. But why the As hereof are called improper A7s of Communion, I know not. Add unto Faith andLove, the Adminiffration of the fame Sacra- ments, with Common Advice in things ofCommon con- cernment, and it is all the Communion that the true Churches of Chriff have among themfelves in thewhole World. Yea this ChurchCommunion is fuch, as that (i.) Where it is not, there is noEvangelical Com- munion at all, whatever As ofWorship or Church Order men may agree in the Praé}ife of, if the Foun- dation of that Agreement be not laid in a joint Commu- nion in Faith and Love, they are neither accepted with God, nor profitable unto the Souls ofmen. For (2.) Thefe are the things, namely, Faithand Love, which enliven all joint Duties ofChurchOrderand Wor- íhíp,are the Life and Soul of it ;and how they íhould be only improperly that,which they alone make other things to beproper!), I cannot underfcand. N n (3.) Where

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