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CHAP. IV. His third Case.

§. 1. Page 48, 49. He resolveth his third Case: [Whether it be lawful to Communicate with two distinct and separate Churches] negatively, and saith, [It is contrary to all the Principles of Church Communion, as any thing can possibly be; it is to be contrary to our selves, it is Communicating with Schism: That the Presbyterian and Independent Churches have made an actual separation from the Church of England he hath evidently proved; — and they are Schismatics, and to communicate with them is to partake in their Schism; and if Schism be a great sin, and that which will damn us as soon as Adultery and Murder, then it must needs be a dangerous thing to communicate with Schismatics. And p. 42. There cannot be two distinct Churches in one place, one for occasional, and another for constant Communion, without Schism.]

§. 1. PAge 48, 49. He resolveth his third Case: [Whether it be lawful to Communicate with two distinct and separate Churches] negatively, and saith, [It is contrary to all the Principles of Church Communion, as any thing can possibly be; it is to be contrary to our selves, it is Communicating with Schism: That the Presbyterian and Independent Churches have made an actual separation from the Church of England he hath evidently proved; — and they are Schismaticks, and to communicate with them is to partake in their Schism; and if Schism be a great sin, and that which will damn us as soon as Adultery and Murther, then it must needs be a dangerous thing to communicate with Schismaticks. And p. 42. There cannot be two distinct Churches in one place, one for occasional, and another for constant Communion, without Schism.]