Objection 11
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11 Obj. If you do scruple Conformity, why do you gather private meetings, and separate from the Church, and hold your meetings at the time of our public Worship? and encourage the people in their Separations? For whatever you say of your self, you cannot but know that it is so in London, and in many other places?
11 Obj. If you do scruple Conformity, why do you gather private meetings, and separate from the Church, and hold your meetings at the time of our publick VVorship? and encourage the people in their Separations? For whatever you say of your self, you cannot but know that it is so in London, and in many other places?
Ans. 1. I told you not my own practise alone, but many others; and when I have told you our Principles, you will the better know how to judg of our different practises.
The Nonconformists hold, 1. That we are members of the Catholic Church, in order of nature, before we are of any particular Church. For Baptism, as such, doth enter us into the former. And that no man must ever separate from this Church upon any pretence whatsoever.
The Nonconformists hold, 1. That we are members of the Catholick Church, in order of nature, before we are of any particular Church. For Baptism, as such, doth enter us into the former. And that no man must ever separate from this Church upon any pretence whatsoever.
2. That our Communion with this Catholic Church is our concord in the performance of that Baptismal Covenant which uniteth us.
2. That our Communion with this Catholick Church is our concord in the performance of that Baptismal Covenant which uniteth us.