The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must…The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must…

Let the things Imposed as Terms and Conditions of Communion, be the Great, Essential, and Constituent Parts of Christianity: Let them be such as are of the Essence of Religion; such as without Assent and Consent unto, no man is, or can be a Christian. That Religion (I mean the Christian Religion) hath its Essential and Constituent Parts, cannot reasonably be denied; for if it have no Essential Parts, 'tis not Quid Compositum, 'tis no compound thing, which no man in his wits, I think, will affirm; and if it be a compound thing, it must have its Essential Parts, ⟨p. 56⟩distinguishable from those that are Integral and Accidental. We are not to be tied up to the one as to the other. Certainement il seroit bien à desirer qu'il n'yeust pour tout aucune diversité, ni bigarrure enter less fideles à cet regard. Mais parce que dans l'infirmité, où nous vivons en cette chair mortelle, ce bon heur est plus a souhaiter, qu' à esperer, il fant restreindre la necessité de l'union de nos sentimens aux poincts, qui sont Essentiels, & sans la creance des l'on ne peut parvenir au salut. A leur égard, tous less fideles doivent sentir une mesme, chose. Null ne peut y avoir de diversité sans rompre. Mais quant aux auters, qui ne sont pas de cette importance, nous devons y souffrir la diversité quand il y en a l'example de l'Apostre, qui oblige bien ci apres tous less fideles à cheminer d'une mesme ragle en ce a quoy ils estoyent parvenus, mais support neantmoins ceux qui aux reste sentent quelque chose autrement que luy, & less fideles parfaits, esperant que Dieu le leur revelera aussi. Come vous voyez, que dans un estate, pourveu que tous less citoyens tiennent less maxims fondamentales, & necessaires pour la sanction des devoirs essentiels à sa conservation, l'on tolere entre eux de la diversité en plusieurs autres subjects de moindre importance. Daily on Phil. 2.2.

Let the things Imposed as Terms and Conditions of Communion, be the Great, Essential, and Constituent Parts of Christianity: Let them be such as are of the Essence of Religion; such as without Assent and Consent unto, no man is, or can be a Christian. That Religion (I mean the Christian Religion) hath its Essential and Constituent Parts, cannot reasonably be denyed; for if it have no Essential Parts, 'tis not Quid Compositum, 'tis no compound thing, which no man in his wits, I think, will affirm; and if it be a compound thing, it must have its Essential Parts,