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4. Therefore I would resolve, I will have no Local Communion with any Church in the use of this, or any Idolatry, but will Worship God in private, if I can have no better; but if I can, I will. And I separate not by this, from the most of the Church, but from a Tyrannical corrupt Sect or Schism: Yea, as to them, I hold mental Communion with them in Christianity, and in all that is good and sound, and renounce Communion with them in all that I know to be evil.

Obj. But what if a Protestant Church make any Sin a condition of their Communion, will you not separate?

Ans. 1. I have said so much of this in this Book, against the Resolver, and Unreasonable Defender, as that I am ashamed that mens Objections make me guilty of so much repetition. 2. None such can make any Sin the Condition of my mental Communion: For if they join good and bad, and bid me do so, God forbids me, and requireth me to own the good, and disown the bad. If they use the bad themselves, and put not me to subscribe, or own it, I will join with them notwithstanding, in that which is good, and in due time and place, disown the evils, e. g. I have oft heard well-meaning men Preach falsehoods against Calvinists, and others against Arminians; some against Presbytery, some against Independency, some against Infant-Baptism; and alas! how ordinarily do men drop their Errors, and put them into their Prayers; I will not for this separate from a Church that professeth to to take the Scripture for their rule. Let them answer for their own misdoings.

Ans. 1. I have said so much of this in this Book, against the Resolver, and Unreasonable Defender, as that I am ashamed that mens Objections make me guilty of so much repetition. 2. None such can make any Sin the Condition of my mental Communion: For if they joyn good and bad, and bid me do so, God forbids me, and requireth me to own the good, and disown the bad. If they use the bad themselves, and put not me to subscribe, or own it, I will joyn with them notwithstanding, in that which is good, and in due time and place, disown the evils, e. g. I have oft heard well-meaning men Preach falshoods against Calvanists, and others against Arminians; some against Presbytery, some against Independency, some against Infant-Baptism; and alas! how ordinarily do men drop their Errors, and put them into their Prayers; I will not for this separate from a Church that professeth to to take the Scripture for their rule. Let them answer for their own misdoings.