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5. If any renounce Communion with faulty Bishops, or Worship, or Discipline, simply and absolutely, and not only secundum quid, and so forsake the good that is in them for the sake of the evil. In a word, 1. All that Separate for a wrong cause. 2. Or further than they Separate from Christ, or than Christ would have them separate, do sin.

2. But they that renounce any corruption, as such, and the Church no further than secundum quid, as it is faulty, do well: For we must so renounce the faults of all Churches and Christians in the World, (and our own first.) But not the Churches and Christians for any tolerable faults, so we commit no Sin our selves, which they impose as the condition of their Communion.

Reader, I displease my own disposition as well as others, in the answering of these Arguments. But when I had read them, my Conscience would not suffer me to see many thousand good People so misguided, who have not skill themselves to discern the Fallacies, and by Silence to betray them.