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7. The Parish Ministers are offended at our refusal, and accuse it as sinful separation, and so interpret it.

All this set together, maketh, it past all denial, that after all this, to avoid all Parish Communion, is by our Actions to say, that we judge it unlawful, whatever is in our Hearts: Had we all these calls to go sometimes to the French and Dutch Church (supposing that we understood them) and would not go, it were a scandalous signification, that we judge it sinful. And one may Lie by Deeds as well as by Words.

V. I take it to be a great Sin to bear false Witness against my Neighbour, and wrongfully accuse a single person: But much greater so to accuse a Church, and much more nine thousand Churches: But to say by my action that their worship of God is so sinful, that it is unlawful to join with ⟨p. 14⟩them; is, as I think, so to accuse them. I dare not say so of an Anabaptists Church.