TO CHAP. XXI.

TO CHAP. XXI.

IT was my serious and unfeigned endeavour, in my Letter which the Examiner hath answered, to have removed those two stumbling blocks out of his way, which I perceived had turned him off, from holding fellowship with these Churches. The former was, The want of fit matter of our Churches: The latter, Our dis-respect to the separate Churches in England, under affliction, when nevertheless our selves practise separation in peace.

IT was my serious and unfeigned endeavour, in my Letter which the Examiner hath answered, to have removed those two stumbling blocks out of his way, which I perceived had turned him off, from holding fellowship with these Churches. The former was, The want of fit matter of our Churches: The latter, Our dis-respect to the separate Churches in England, under affliction, when neverthelesse our selves practise separation in peace.

From the beginning of his tenth Chapter, he hath endeavoured to fasten the former of these stumbling blocks, that it may still lie in his way, and stand (as an everlasting wall of partition) between us. Which nevertheless I have (as you see) through the help of Christ endeavoured to dig through the sandiness thereof, that if it were the holy will of God, it might fall down (like the walls of Jericho) before the Ark of the Lord, and neither detain him, nor others, from Communion with us.

From the beginning of his tenth Chapter, he hath endeavoured to fasten the former of these stumbling blocks, that it may still lie in his way, and stand (as an everlasting wall of partition) between us. Which neverthelesse I have (as you see) through the helpe of Christ endeavoured to dig through the sandinesse thereof, that if it were the holy will of God, it might fall downe (like the walles of Jericho) before the Arke of the Lord, and neither detaine him, nor others, from Communion with us.