And again to convince & advise him, It becomes us much more

to use means w^th our brethren to redeem y^m from y^e error of y^r way

James 5 2 last & 2 Tim 2 24 25: In a word, I do conceive it

if y^e councills determination when y^ei left you & y^r reply to your objecti

ons against it be well considered y^r will appear something chargable on y^r

Pastor or B^r w^th him w^ch ought to be acknowledged (that y^rby y^e hearts

of Br greeved & offended may be eased) before you can come after y^r dis

order to y^e lords table, And truly it may be feared y^t your selves not begining

in this work is a cause why y^e opposite party to you are now more for=

=ward to attend their duty heerin, which duty how much it is incumbant

upon both me thinks those Scriptures 5 Math 23 25 & James 5 16 doe

Evince: It is true god will have his holy ordinance attended, w^ch you strong

ly plead, but you know y^t he will alsoe have them attended after y^e due order

otherwise we may expect a breach rather yⁿ a blessing 1 chr. 15. 13.

God loves his worship, & desires it much, but he stands more upon peac love

& union amongst his pp, than our attendance upon him in y^s or y^t part of insti

tuted worship which were means to further us in morrall dutyes, & therfore

tells us y^t he is willing to stay for his service till we be reconciled one to another

If the gift must be left at y^e altar till personal reconciliation be made, much

more when the distance is between soe many & not healed by mutual ac

knowledgm^ts: And as to this you should doe as you would be done by, you

will not admit y^e brethren to y^t ordinance w^thout confession of their faults.

and why should you goe to it without attendance to y^t duty you call for

from them, as for your pleading therfore not guilty it is not unusefull to

consider what M^r Burroughs speaks in his Irenicum[15] who tells us that

when our spirits are hott with displeasure one against another we are

apt to be hardned from seing what is amiss in our selves, as it was with

Jonah when his spirit was hott & angry he would hardly be convinced

by God himself that he did or spake any thing amiss[16]

Concerning your judgmt that noe Cessation in your case can be grounded

upon 1 cor. 11 I desire you would a little father consider the 18 20

33 verses he tells them that whilst ther were divisions & other evills a-

=mongst them, theirs was not to eate y^e lords supper, hence it necessarily

followes those thing which made it to be noe participation in the lords

supper if not mended, ought to be reformed before they come; other

=wise why dos god set the swords point to ther breasts v 27 29, yea and

smott them not onely with sickness but with death if they might still

meet w^th that ordinance though these divisions and other evills were

now removed he that sayth Examine prepare & soe come, doe ther

=in say come not otherwise; & church reformation not onely personel

Examination is required in that Chaptre before they might partake

in that ordinance otherwise they might expect to hear from God this

of his displeasure besides that they had felt. I need not tell you S^r

what God required of y^e Jewes as to serching out of leaven before they

eat the passover or what it signified, the Apostle expounds it 1 Cor 5