If the Members of Orthodox Churches may▪ upon the terms expressed in the seventh Proposition, claim Baptism for their children in our Churches, by virtue of Church-communion, then themselves have right to communicate with us in the Lords Supper; and then what should hinder but that we may, by virtue of Church-communion, occasionally coming to any of these Orthodox Churches, have our children baptized in such a Church, and our selves partake in the Supper of the Lord? Or, if we should have occasion to remove our Habitation to such a place where such an Orthodox Church is, why may we not join unto it, and have fellowship with it? And if we may so do, New-England Christians are of all Christians in the world most miserable and foolish. We have suffered many things in vain, in leaving such a Country for this; our Estates Friends, Comforts there, to enjoy God, and Christ, and our Consciences in the Congregational-Way, in a low afflicted condition in the Wilderness, for so many years together; and now we must lose those things which we have wrought, and may return to our former sta•e when we please: which the Lord preserve us from.
If the Members of Orthodox Churches may▪ upon the terms expressed in the seventh Proposition, claim Baptism for their children in our Churches, by virtue of Church-communion, then themselves have right to communicate with us in the Lords Supper; and then what should hinder but that we may, by virtue of Church-communion, occasionally coming to any of these Orthodox Churches, have our children baptized in such a Church, and our selves partake in the Supper of the Lord? Or, if we should have occasion to remove our Habitation to such a place where such an Orthodox Church is, why may we not joyn unto it, and have fellowship with it? And if we may so do, New-England Christians are of all Christians in the world most miserable and foolish. We have suffered many things in vain, in leaving such a Countrey for this; our Estates Friends, Comforts there, to enjoy God, and Christ, and our Consciences in the Congregational-Way, in a low afflicted condition in the Wilderness, for so many years together; and now we must lose those things which we have wrought, and may return to our former sta•e when we please: which the Lord preserve us from.
