298 ) Church State, Order or Power. And it may be hence Judged who domolt weaken the Cat f ofReformation, we or Come ofthem at lean, by whomwe are oppofed. A fecond Abf?ardity that he chargeth on our way is, that it would make Union among the `Protefant Churches impoffÊble, fuppofing them to remain acs they are. Sefl. 24. pag. 186. To makegood this Charge, he infifts on two things. (z.) That the Lutheran Churches have the fame and more Ceremonies , and unfriptural ImpolItions then our Church bath. (2.) That notwithllanding there things yet many learn- ed Protefl'ant Divines, have pleadedfor Union and Com- munion with them, which upon our Principles and Suppo - tions, they could not have done. But whether they plead for Union and Communion with them, by admitting into their Churches, and fùbmitting unto thofe Cere- monies and unfcriptural Impofitions, which is aloneunto the Doors Purpofe ; or whether they judge their Members obliged to Communicate in local Communion with them, under thofe Impofitions, he loth not declare. But whereas neither we nor our Caufe are in the leaf concerned in what the Dr. here inÉitts upon, yet becáufe the Charge is no lets, then that our `Principles give cli- flurbance unto the `Peace and minion of all `Proteflant Churches, I shall briefly manifeft that they are not only conducive thereunto, but fuch as without :Which that Peace and Union will never be attained. r. It is known unto all, that from the firft Beginning ofthe Reformation, there were Differefices among the Churches, which departed from the Cómmunion of the
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