The cure of church-divisions, or, Directions for weak Christians to keep them from being…

Therefore on one side let us take heed how we •nchurch and unchristen any with whom we do not corporally join: And on the other side, let us take heed how we revile them all as Sectaries and Separatists, who do not join with our assemblies: But let us know the reason of their practise before we peremptorily judge them.

Therefore on one side let us take heed how we •nchurch and unchristen any with whom we do not corporally joyn: And on the other side, let us take heed how we revile them all as Sectaries and Separatists, who do not joyn with our assemblies: But let us know the reason of their practise before we peremptorily judge them.

I. Perhaps you think that such or such a Church-government, or Forms, or Ceremonies, are unwarrantable, and such and such oaths and subscriptions are unlawful, and therefore you cannot have local communion with the Churches that impose them. If it were so, yet take heed of […] these no Churches of Christ, or pretending ⟨p. 297⟩that Christ disowneth and rejecteth them. If they cast out you by imposing any thing which you think is sin, yet take heed that you excommunicate not them. If there be a difference between a weak and culpable Christian, and no-Christian, there is a difference between a weak and culpable Church, and no-Church; And as there are innumerable degrees of good or evil, strength or weakness in particular Christians, so there is in Churches also.

I. Perhaps you think that such or such a Church-government, or Forms, or Ceremonies, are unwarrantable, and such and such oaths and subscriptions are unlawful, and therefore you cannot have local communion with the Churches that impose them. If it were so, yet take heed of 〈…〉 these no Churches of Christ, or pretending ⟨p. 297⟩