183) rightly conflituted, with whom they may joyn inCommunion as Members; I think it is fomewhat too late now after all this difpute about the Reafons ofrefraining from their Communion, and his revere Charges of Schirme upon us for our fo doing,to make this Enquiry ;Wherefore he Anfwers himfelf, No, but his Meaning is, faith he, that they are not guilty ofanyfilch heynorss Errors in Dn5lrine, or Idolatrous Pra 1if ix Worjhip, as fhould utterly deprive them of the Being and nature of Churches , which I fup- pofe aremy Words. But then comes in the Advantage; doth, faith he, this Kindnef belong only unto f ®me of our Parochial Churches ? I had thought that every `Parochial Church was true orfalfe according unto itsframe andconfli- tution, which among us, fuppofe'th the owning the Doctrine and Worfip eflablifhed in the Church ofEngland. I an- fwer briefly; it is true, every Church is true orfalfe ac- cording unto its Original frame and Conftitution. This frameand Conftitutionof Churches, if it proceed from, and depend upon the Inflitution of Chrift, it is true and approveable. Ifit dependonly on a National Eftablithment of Do&rine and Worthip, I know not well what to fay unto it. But let any ofthere Parochial Churches be fo conftituted, as to anfwer the legal efla- blifhment in the Land, yet if the Generality of their Members are openly wicked in their Lives, and they have no lawful or fufficient Miniftry, we cannot ac- knowledge them for true Churches. Some other things of the like nature do enfue, but .I fhall not infift on them. He gathers up in the next place, the Titles of the Caufes alledged, for our refraining Communion with thofe Parochial femblies, which he calls our Separation N n 2 from
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