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Show Elea God would ha've'th'eln to lie <:p.efliL•I, without t:irclllll fb'uQie's aM d\l'trat'tiohs. Itrru!h ufChurcbes, ahli Minil'tNies, and Ordi'!lances, depended upon tM per fort all fintet!ty of the godli· neff~ of the dilpenfw, the Eleth>f God Would ~1er b-e intangled wilh i'mxuicab\e fcruplc~, touching their tomunio'n bete'orthere, \\!irh th!s or that Chllrch, or tlie adrllinil'tratiotis'o'f the Officers thereof. But God hath called 'tJa in peacll. . F6r 'th~ feco·liif j:rare( which 'heiDalrerh) of tny'Cdnfeffion's he 'had Caid'ttlle, iF he ha:~ faid, I endeavour fuch a thing, ihat 'out fh~~~h !houl~ be conlht~re of g,odly perforts : bUt f dtJe ndtfay Tha vc a'tial'n~111t ;lfor @&! feetli hat a~ tha11 :fe·etb ~ tnan lobketh adh'e oo'ttVa'rd a-ppe~r~nte) 'btlt'th'e tord ~ard~th ihe bent ~Sam. 16,7. Andfureiam, we lookeat Infants a1membersof ou·r 'Church, ( allieing fmdurally hoi~) but I am flow to belecve that all of them ~are t~gellerate, or'tl'llty godly. ~l forth .. third ·,•n1 fourth r,oint .('which he maketh) c)f,my CMft!l\bn ; 'fblit •a 'Chu1eh ofC!irijl·catllz~t 'be l!olijliuned bj god! P< Jon~, Ia~~ with the inordinate lov.oft~world : or that aChurJ ca: :fJimgN 'foch, ought to lie ft'pdratt'd Porn: Tht:Ce -att bnely'llis own .llalpable.mltl:akesof~fe?'a;dscfmin'e, w'llich f df,.rHfed as the fumthe 61 his tiro rei's, ,whtch he (tltrou.gh h:lll) cbbcefvcd to b~ inirte, w~eteol'we ha:~~ f[illken in the 2o•h'Chapth. . Let h1m not fay( as he doth) chat'\tlhe'n 'I would not have Pa ·~iJII Gh'lfrchiJ't.o 1J~<"ftp11r~lidfrom,jor the remn'iJiitJ ofpoUutiom,I mean ~";~' f•~einat!zes,dnd'BiJI!.opt : ~eiiher let him Jay, that 'I doe txtehuau ~nil lnrp;e t~e ~oet~, 'j'1.1Je, imi/ 'fobjlar~ce of the'm111er ff[ N ationall Clljz~es, ( tf1~ttt,~for lh~ g~e~ter flltt unregenetlftt) by naming one~ a remnarfl of pollrJfzllnJ, 1 o· Fof he ~noweth we wholly avoydeNationall, Provinciatl and 10te an o'ver'nment of the Churches by Epifcopall Aurhdrity: He f0owec_h alfo, we a:voyde thdr prefcdpt Licurgies, and ComHilkton ":nh1. ope?ly fcandalous perfons in any Church-order ; e A owed' •kewtfe, (or at leal't m.1y know) that it is a cominu· all farrow ofheart,and_a mou~ning of our foules, that there is yet ~ ?lu~lt of thof~ notonom cvtlls (which he namech) fiill conti· ~u1n~ m t~c P .mlhes, wotldlindfe;ignorance, fuperllition, fcof• ng, wear.mg, curling, whoredome, drurlkennetfe, theft, lying, I may ad de alfo murther,~nd m•lfgnity againi't the godly,fulfered tO to Mafter Roger Williams. · cJ tbiull the~J.Ielv.;s into the feHowlhip of-the Ch~rche!,and to lit downe with the S~ints at the Lords Table. But yet ·I count all thefe but remnants of pollution, when as the fubl'tance of the true ei'tace of Churches abide~h ( asl opened above) 'in their Congregational! A!femblies. And in fa fpeaking, I follow the holy patterne of the Prophet Ifaiah, who acknow· !edging a great forfaking ( or Apoftacy ) in the '\'idft oft he Land, yecrefembleth the ei'tace of the Church to .an O,•ke, whof< fubllance is in it,( when the leaves fa11 off) and maketh the holy feed --to be that fub'llance, lfsi. 6. t ,, 13. To C H A P• X X I I. THe fecond offence which the ExamiPer tooke at our neglc8: '· J. of the Churches of t~e fepua~ion,,Was the reproach of himfolfi and othert at Salem,for tberrftp.ratton. Tdwhich I anfwered in my Letter, That I~ew 110 man whorep; oached ~alemfor thtir fopaMtion, nJJr did I kelmx, .th~t th'! did fopar81e• 'Howfoever, if anJ didrep.aach them for rt,I dtd tbzn~ r; a ftn~e ;..;et'e' 10 be Cllifure{i, -but'llot ftlithJo d<epe a Cenfure, "' .'" excommt~nt· . ate a)l'the Churches, br to foparate from fhem, h<jore J1 datb a!peare, ·:haf they doe tolerate their mer>ibm in fu:h their ·~~Jleffi r.proachings • 'ibe errors of men are t3-bt cv111m'tled agarnjl , tzol wtW•rtpr~~ches, but F.iththefword ofth f Spirit. Butontheother fid~, the fatlmgs ofthe · Churches ore not foJ'Jbwith to be healed by J•paratro7l, It u not Chzrurgtry, but Butchery, to heal< every for~·in a member, with"" oth<r hHI Abfciffion f rom the bod)• When to the Examiner anfwereth,That the Church of SJlem was . ~nowne to profi.ffe foparation,'andrblickly r~pr?ached.(ye~ be could men. 4ion a Cafe wherein Jb<e was p!'niJ~e~ )fvr t~, tmplzcttely. . . Reply. This anfwer is fo !mphc1;, that I cannot make an exph-ite anfwer to it. That whKh r latd, was, I ·k[!ew no man that re_; roachedSalem for their {eparati,"": nor did I beleeve, that ·l~ry did fi· par ate. His anfwer if, That the-Church of S.l~m wa1. k[!o~ne to pro· ftj]e jip(lfation: which croifeth not what I fa1d; for It "nght be fa, and yet I knew not ofit,unlelfe the profeffion had been m_ore p~b· "lick. Nor did I eveq>erceive,_thac they refufed communiOn wuh , LU, |