TO CHAP. XIII.
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TO CHAP. XIII.
His 13th Chapter is taken up in Examining and Answering a second Answer, which I gave to his Objection propounded above in Chap. 10. The Answer was this, as he setteth it down.
HIs 13th Chapter is taken up in Examining and Answering a second Answer, which I gave to his Objection propounded above in Chap. 10. The Answer was this, as he setteth it downe.
Secondly, we deny that it is necessary to Church-fellowship, (that is so necessary, that without it a Church cannot be) That the members admitted thereunto, should all of them see, and expressly bewail all the pollutions which they have been defiled with in their former Church-fellowship, Ministry worship, Government, &c. If they see and bewail so much of their former pollutions, as did enthral them to Antichrist, so, as to separate them from Christ: and withal be ready in preparation of heart, as they shall see more light, so to hate more and more every false way. This we conceive to be as much, as is necessarily required to separate them from Antichrist unto fellowship with Christ, and his Churches, &c.
Secondly, we deny that it is necessary to Church-fellowship, (that is so necessary, that without it a Church cannot be) That the members admitted thereunto, should all of them see, and expresly bewaile all the pollutions which they have been defiled with in their former Church-fellowship, Ministery worship, Government, &c. If they see and bewaile so much of their former pollutions, as did enthrall them to Antichrist, so, as to separate them from Christ: and withall be ready in preparation of heart, as they shall see more light, so to hate more and more every false way. This we conceive to be as much, as is necessarily required to separate them from Antichrist unto fellowship with Christ, and his Churches, &c.