A30136:81
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.
Having thus made confession of my Faith, I now come to show you my practise in Worship, with the reasons thereof. The which I shall have occasion to touch, under two distinct heads.
HAving thus made confession of my Faith, I now come to shew you my practise in Worship, with the reasons thereof. The which I shall have occasion to touch, under two distinct heads.
1, With whom I dare not hold communion.
2. With whom I dare.
Only, first, Note, that by the word Communion I mean fellowship in the things of the Kingdom of Christ, or that which is commonly called Church communion, the Communion of Saints. For in civil affairs and in things of this World that are honest, I am not altogether tied up from the fornicators thereof; (Cor. 5 9, 10) Wherefore in my following discourse understand me in the first sense.
Only, first, Note, that by the word Communion I mean fellowship in the things of the Kingdom of Christ, or that which is commonly called Church communion, the Communion of Saints. For in civil affairs and in things of this World that are honest, I am not altogether tyed up from the fornicators thereof; (Cor. 5 9, 10) Wherefore in my following discourse understand me in the first sense.