( ) (3.) Where there is nodefeét in thefe things, namely, in Faith andLove, the Charge of Schifisae on diffenting in things of leffer Moment, is altogether unreafonable. It is to be defired," that an overweening ofour Diffe- rences, make us not overlook the things wherein we are agreed:. This is one of the greateft Evils that attend this Controverfie. Men are forced by their Intereft, to ray more weight on a few outwardRites and Ceremonies, which the World and the Churchmight well have (pa- red, had they not come into the Minds of fome Men, none know how, than upon the molt important Graces and Ditties ofthe GofpeI:. Hence Communion in Faith and Love, is fcarce efteemed worth taking up in the ftreets, in èomparifon of Vnifornzity in Rites and Cere- monies. Let Men be as void of and remote from true Gofpel Faith and Love as is imaginable ; yet if they comply quietly with, andhave a littleZeal for thole out- ward things, they are to be approved of as very or- derly Members of the Church. And whatever Evi- dences on the other hand, any can or do give of their Communion in FaithandLove, with all that are of that Comrnwiion, yet if they cannot in Confcience comply in the Obfervance of thole outward things mentioned, they are to, be judged Schif,atickî,, and Breakers ofthe ChurchesUnity ; whereas no part ofthe Churches Uni- ty doth or ever did confift in them. In his Procedure hereon, our Author feemes to- em- brace occafons ofcontending, feeking for Advantages therein, in things not belonging unto, the Merit of the Caufe, which I thought was beneath him. From my Concell.ion thatfimeat leafi ofour ?)arochial Churches are trice Churches 5 . he asks,. inwhatfenf Are the, Churches= rightly
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