A30136:107
A confession of my faith and a reason of my practice
A confession of my faith and a reason of my practice, or, With who, and who not, I can hold church-fellowship, or the communion of saints
London: printed for Francis Smith, 1672
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Paul also when he exhorteth Timothy to follow after righteousness; Faith, Charity, Peace, &c. (which ⟨p. 57⟩are the bowels of Church communion) he saith, do it with those that call on the name of the Lord, out of a pure heart. 2 Tim. 2, 22.
Sithly, In a word, to hold communion with the open profane, is most pernicious and destructive.
Sithly, In a word, to hold communion with the open prophane, is most pernicious and destructive.
1, 'Twas the wicked multitude, that fell a lusting, and that tempted Christ in the desert, Num. 11.4.
2, It was the profane, heathen, of whom Israel learned, to worship Idols. They were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works, and served their Idols, which were a snare to them.