ADVERTISEMENTS TO THE READER.ADƲERTISEMENTS TO THE READER.
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ADVERTISEMENTS TO THE READER.
ADƲERTISEMENTS TO THE READER.
TO the Epistle of the Author of this Reply we say nothing, because it savours (for the most part) of love and desire of unity, which we thankfully acknowledge; only we cannot but take notice of two passages.
TO the Epistle of the Author of this Reply wee say nothing, because it savours (for the most part) of love and desire of unity, which we thankfully acknowledge; onely we cannot but take notice of two passages.
1 A complaint made against some standing affected New-England ward, who have carried it so, as if a chief part of holiness consisted in separation; and that therefore some have separated from all private and public communion there; others from all public, but not from private; others from the Sacraments only, allowing public communion otherwise.
1 A complaint made against some standing affected New-England ward, who have carryed it so, as if a chiefe part of holinesse consisted in separation; and that therefore some have separated from all private and publique communion there; others from all publique, but not from private; others from the Sacraments onely, allowing publique communion otherwise.
To which we answer, that as the Church fell by degrees into universal pollution, by the Apostasy foretold to be under the Man of Sin; so by degrees it recovers out of it again: If therefore separation reach no farther then separation from sins, and such sins of Churches wherein our selves in joining with them must be involved, we suppose such separation