A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

Seventhly, beware of separating new Lights, to separate from, or gather Churches out of the true reformed or reforming Churches, hath not the least warrant from the word of God. When we see this or that amiss in a Church, we are bidden exhort one another, and provoke one another to good, but not to separate, Heb. 10. 24, 25. Zuinglius conferred amicably with the Anabaptists in Zurik, as with dissenting brethren, and no course was taken to suppress or restrain them by the secular power, till they grew to gather Churches out of the true reformed Churches, but when it came to that, they could not be suffered or forborne, it was thought necessary to restrain them.

Seventhly, beware of separating new Lights, to separat from, or gather Churches out of the true reformed or reforming Churches, hath not the least warrant from the word of God. When we see this or that amisse in a Church, wee are bidden exhort one another, and provoke one another to good, but not to separate, Heb. 10. 24, 25. Zuinglius conferred amicably with the Anabaptists in Zurik, as with dissenting brethren, and no course was taken to suppresse or restraine them by the secular power, till they grew to gather Churches out of the true reformed Churches, but when it came to that, they could not be suffered or forborn, it was thought necessary to restrain them.

Eighthly, beware of those new Lights which dare not be seen, and are kept up in corners. Truth seeks no corners: light doth not shun light: a candle is not lighted to be put under a bushel, but on a candlestick, Matth: 5. 15. 1 Joh: 3. 20, 21. Every one that doeth evil, hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved, but he that doth truth, cometh to the light, Prov. 4. 19. The way of the wicked, is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. I add to make up the Antithesis to vers: 18. their way is darkened more and more until the dark night. I have heard when the Arminians were ptto it in the Synod of Dort, to declare their judgement and sense