( 2 88 ) confiderationof them, we may juftifie our whole Caufe. Both theee may be wanting in a Church, which is not guilty offuch heynous Errors in Do&rine, or Idolatry in Worihip, as fhould gverthrow its Being. And their want, may be a juft Caufe of refraining Communion from a Church, which yet we are not obliged to con- demn as none at all. Calvin expreffeth his Judgment, N. 12. I would not give Countenance unto Errors, no not to the leafy fo as to cherifh them byflattery or Connivance. `But though I fay, that the Church is not to beforfaken for trifling Differences, wherein the Doctrine, (of the Gofpel) is retainedfafe and found, wherein the Integrity of Godlinef cloth abide, and the ufe of the Sacraments appointedofthe Lord is preferved5 and we fay the fame. And this very Calvin who doth fo feverely condemn ,Separation from a true Church as by him fiated, did himfelfquietly and peaceably withdraw and depart from the Churchof Geneva, when they refufed to admit that Difcipline, which he efteemed to be according to the Mind ofChrift. It is certain therefore that by the Se- paration which he condemns, he doth not intend the peaceable Relinquifhment of the Communion of any Church, as untoa conftant participation of all Ordinan- ces in it, for want of due means of Edification, much lets that which hath fo many other Caufes concurring therewith. For the other Learned Men whom he quotes unto the fame purpofe, I fee not any thing that gives the leafs countenance unto his Affertion that our `Principles wea- ken
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