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2. By way of Recommendation; Letters are sent from one Church to another, recommending to their watchfulness and communion, any of their members, who by occasion of business, are for a time to reside amongst them. As Paul sent Letters of Recommendation to the Church of Rome, in the behalf of Phoebe, a Deaconess of the Church at Cenchrea, Rom. 16.1, 2. And of these kind of Letters he speaketh to the Church of Corinth also, though not as needful to himself (who was well known to them) yet for others, 2 Cor. 3.1.

2. By way of Recommendation; Letters are sent from one Church to another, recommending to their watchfulnesse and communion, any of their members, who by occasion of businesse, are for a time to reside amongst them. As Paul sent Letters of Recommendation to the Church of Rome, in the behalfe of Phoebe, a Deaconesse of the Church at Cenchrea, Rom. 16.1, 2. And of these kind of Letters he speaketh to the Church of Coriuth also, though not as needfull to himselfe (who was well known to them) yet for others, 2 Cor. 3.1.

But if a member of one Church have just occasion to remove himself, and his family, to take up his settled habitation in another Church, then the Letters written by the Church in his behalf, do ⟨p. 18⟩recommend him to their perpetual watchfulness and communion. And if the other church have no just cause to refuse him, they of his own church do by those letters wholly dismiss him from themselves; whereupon the letters (for distinction sake) are called letters of dismission; which indeed do not differ from the other, but in the durance of the recommendation, the one recommending him for a time, the other for ever.