Blessed unions. An union with the son of God by faith. And, an union…

But as we should Forbear all Impositions of one upon another, so should we Forbear all Prejudices of one against another. Though Calvin could not come to the Lords Table with Luther, yet says he, I will ever call him an Eminent Servant of God, yea, though he should call me a Devil. I do not see, That Christians not joining with others in all the same Rites and Modes of Worship, must be understood as, Declaring all others to be not in a State of Salvation. Those Angry Men, which fall into a Rage at all Dissenters, as if they did indeed so Declare, do indeed therein Declare only that as their own Opinion of those Dissenters. Nor will any man that sufficiently ponders, That in Rom. 14 6. where God is Glorified ⟨p. 75⟩by two opposite parties, think there •s any Divinity in that Assertion of those Angry Men. I must join my self, where the Ordinances are so Administered as that my Conscience tells •ne, Gods Word and my Good is therein •ost attended unto. But a man may Locally separate from very many pointing Defects and Failures in Church-administrations, while he does not Heartily separate from his Obligations to Love and Serve those whom he does not now meet withal. Briefly, every Difference in Religion, does not make a Different Religion. And if we think our own Understandings to be a Standard for all the Rest of Mankind, we do certainly, Think of our selves above what we ought. But what must our Deportment then towards Conscientious Dissenters be? I say, All made up of Charity. We are still to be Theirs, U•• •d Aras; and be ashamed if our Conduct unto them, should not be able to stand before the Thirteenth Chapter In the first Epistle to the Corinthians. We should make the fairest constructions of all ⟨p. 76⟩Actions, and Lovingly take every thin• by the Best Handle. We should, […] we knock with Hard Reasons, yet str•k• them with Soft Answers; and let the• find us of the Tribe, which, Give Goodly Words. A Samaritan sort o crabbedness, churlishness, frowardness towards all that are not in every thing just Jumping with us, and,—No Monstrare vias adem nisi sacra Colenti 'Tis not the Spirit of the Gospel. I short, we should conclude as the famous African Synod, upon the Subject of Baptism did, Neminem Judicamus […] Diversum in hac Re Senserit. We must beware how we Monopolize all Godliness to our own Little Party;