A30136:211
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.
3. This is the way to favour and taste the Spirit of God in each others experience; for which if you find it in truth you cannot but bless (if you be Saints) the name our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thes. 1.2, 3, 4.
4. This is the way to increase knowledge, or to see more in the word of God: for that may be known by two; that is not seen by one. Isa. 52.8.
5. This is the way to remove secret jealousies, and murmurings one against the other; yea this is the way to prevent much sin, and greatly to frustrate that design of hell, Prov. 6.16, 17, 18, 19.
6. This is the way to bring them out of the World into fellowship; that now stand off from our Gospel privileges, for the sake of our vain janglings,