Chapter 12
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CHAP. XII.
Reply. TO the seventh consideration, The practise of the Church of Strangers in London, recorded by John Alasco, is for differing from your judgment and practise in the point in question. For first, say they, Paul testifieth that the Church it self, without exception of any member of it, is clean or holy by the administration of baptism.
Reply. TO the seventh consideration, The practise of the Church of Strangers in London, recorded by John Alasco, is for differing from your judgment and practise in the point in question. For first, say they, Paul testifieth that the Church it self, without exception of any member of it, is cleane or holy by the administration of baptisme.
Answ. We confess the same.
Answ. We confesse the same.
Reply. Secondly, They bold Communion with the Church of England as one with theirs.
Answ. The Church of England they call it not, but the English Churches: and we deny not the same in an orderly way: as they also required Testimony of their piety, if any did but present a child to baptism in their Church. We have often professed this, and by your own grant most of the approved Christians amongst us are not members of the English Churches, having renounced their right of membership and Communion with the Church they were of there.