Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending…

1. I would desire him once to give us a just Description of that Repentance, short of saving, which he will be satisfied with the Profession of, in his Communicants. 2. I must confess as much as I am against separation, I never intend to have communion with Mr. Blake's Congregation, if they profess not saving Repentance and faith. And if he exact not such a Profession, I say still he makes soul work in the Church. And when such soul work shall be voluntarily maintained, and the Word of God abused for the defilement of the Church, and Ordinances of God, it is a greater scandal to the weak, and to the Schismatics, and a greater reproach to the Church, and sadder case to considerate men, than the too common pollutions of others, which are merely through negligence, but not justified and defended. And if Mr. Blake be angry at my speaking these things, I cannot help it. I am bound to tell him of it as a faithful Brother, that I doubt not but God is angry at his Doctrine, and the great wrong that he doth the Church of God, while he is so angry at his Brother for resisting it. For my part, I would not have done his work, no nor justified it as some of his near Learned Friends have done, for more than I will speak of. Its like he will hardly exact a Profession of saving Repentance from the lapsed for their Restoration to the communion of the Church, if he will not do it of the Church themselves in their Sacramental communion.

1. I would desire him once to give us a just Description of that Repentance, short of saving, which he will be satisfied with the Profession of, in his Communicants. 2. I must confess as much as I am against separation, I never intend to have communion with Mr. Blakes Congregation, if they profess not saving Repentance and faith. And if he exact not such a Profession, I say still he makes soul work in the Church. And when such soul work shall be voluntarily maintained, and the Word of God abused for the defilement of the Church, and Ordinances of God, it is a greater scandal to the weak, and to the Schismaticks, and a greater reproach to the Church, and sadder case to considerate men, than the too common pollutions of others, which are meerly through negligence, but not justified and defended. And if Mr. Blake be angry at my speaking these things, I cannot help it. I am bound to tell him of it as a faithful Brother, that I doubt not but God is angry at his Doctrine, and the great wrong that he doth the Church of God, while he is so angry at his Brother for resisting it. For my part, I would not have done his work, no nor justified it as some of his neer Learned Friends have done, for more than I will speak of. Its like he will hardly exact a Profession of saving Repentance from the lapsed for their Restoration to the communion of the Church, if he will not do it of the Church themselves in their Sacramental communion.