Use 5. To conclude, I advise all that are unfeigned friends to the Unity of the Church, to practise the wholesome Doctrine of this Text. If you have Zeal, there's sin enough in your selves and others to lay i• out upon: Bear not with Infidelity, Sensuality, Impenitency or any ungodly course. If men be not so ⟨p. 362⟩much as weak Believers, and seem not Saints at least of the lower form, receive not these into your Communion; but leave them under your common compassionate charity. If you can prove that God receiveth them not, then do not you Receive them. But as you are Christians, take heed of cutting off or despising the Members of Christ; and of giving a Bill of divorce to any soul that is truly espoused to him: You have Drunkards, and Railers, and notorious ungodly ones enough to exercise all your Zeal, if you join both head and heart and hand against them: And can you find in your hearts to fall upon one another for indifferent things, or smaller matters, which the Unity of the Church doth not consist in? I speak to both sides impartially; and I beseech you so understand me. What if thy weak ⟨p. 363⟩Brother pray upon a Book, darest thou therefore despise him? and what if thy Brother pray without Book, darest thou therefore judge him? Nay darest thou desire that none but such should have liberty to Preach or Worship in the Church? What if thy weak Brother dare not receive the Sacrament unless he Kneel in the act of receiving it? darest thou therefore despise him? And what if thy Brother on the other side, do rather take it in another gesture, because he is sure that Christ and his Apostles sinned not in so doing, and because he finds that our Kneeling is contrary to the practice of the ancient Church (yea ad hominem, I may say) contrary to General Councils, yea to the last Canon of the first General Council it self, which even the Canonists say that no Provincial Council, or Bishops can repeal ⟨p. 364⟩(with many other reasons;) dare you therefore judge him, because he dare not imitate you rather then Christ and his Apostles, and the Primitive Church for many hundred years? If any imagine that I go against this necessary Toleration my self, because all here receive the Sacrament sitting; I answer, Let them prove that ever I refused one person merely because they would take it Kneeling, if they can. If you say, Why then are not all admitted to take it Kneeling?
Vse 5. To conclude, I advise all that are unfeigned friends to the Unity of the Church, to practise the wholsom Doctrine of this Text. If you have Zeal, there's sin enough in your selves and o•hers to lay i• out upon: Bear not with Infidelity, Sensuality, Impenitency or any ungodly course. If men be not so ⟨p. 362⟩much as weak Believers, and seem not Saints at least of the lower form, receive not these into your Communion; but leave them under your common compassionate charity. If you can prove that God receiveth them not, then do not you Receive them. But as you are Christians, take heed of cutting off or despising the Members of Christ; and of giving a Bill of divorce to any soul that is truly espoused to him: You have Drunkards, and Railers, and notorious ungodly ones enough to exercise all your Zeal, if you joyn both head and heart and hand against them: And can you find in your hearts to fall upon one another for indifferent things, or smaller matters, which the Unity of the Church doth not consist in? I speak to both sides impartially; and I beseech you so understand me. What if thy weak ⟨p. 363⟩Brother pray upon a Book, darest thou therefore despise him? and what if thy Brother pray without Book, darest thou therefore judge him? Nay darest thou desire that none but such should have liberty to Preach or Worship in the Church? What if thy weak Brother dare not receive the Sacrament unless he Kneel in the act of receiving it? darest thou therefore despise him? And what if thy Brother on the other side, do rather take it in another gesture, because he is sure that Christ and his Apostles sinned not in so doing, and because he finds that our Kneeling is contrary to the practice of the ancient Church (yea ad hominem, I may say) contrary to General Councils, yea to the last Canon of the first General Council it self, which even the Canonists say that no Provincial Council, or Bishops can repeal ⟨p. 364⟩(with many other reasons;) dare you therefore judge him, because he dare not imitate you rather then Christ and his Apostles, and the Primitive Church for many hundred years? If any imagine that I go against this necessary Toleration my self, because all here receive the Sacrament sitting; I answer, Let them prove that ever I refused one person meerly because they would take it Kneeling, if they can. If you say, Why then are not all admitted to take it Kneeling?
