Mr. Collier's desertion discuss'd: or the offices of worship in the Liturgy of the Church of England, defended: against the bold attacks of that gentleman, late of her Communion, now of his own. In a letter to a friend. The second edition, with considerable enlargements. T o which is added, A second letter, by way of Appendix, containing some Desiderata. Whosoever follows him that makes a Schism, believe it, he shall not inherit the Kingdom of God. Iguatius ad Philadelph. Mark them that cause Divisions among you, and avoid them, Rom xvi. 17. For such Persons are by the Scripture called Scandals in the Abstract. They are Offenders and Offences too. But if any Man have an Opinion, let him have it to himself, till he can be cured of his Disease by Time and Counsel, and gentle Usage: But if he separate from the Church, or gather a Congregation, he is proud, and is fallen from the Communion of Saints, and the Unity of the Church. Bishop Taylor's Rules and Advices to the Clergy. Holy Scripture contains all things necessary to Salvation. So that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be prov'd thereby, is not to be required of any Man, that it should be believed as an Article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to Salvation. Artic. 6. That the Book of Common-Prayer contains in it nothing contrary to the Word of God, and that it may be lawfully used, and that he himself will use the Form in the said Book prescribed, in publick Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, and no other, as an Article unto which every one, at his first Admission into Sacred Orders, does subscribe. For any Minister who is in Orders, to act contrary to the Order of his Ministry; to bring in Forms and Ways of Worship of his own, in Opposition or Contempt of that Church he has derived his Ministerial Office from; is directly to do what Nadab and Abihu did, to offer Strange Fire. And for People to accompany such, to abett and countenance them, is to run the Hazard that People were then in, to have the Wrath of God come upon them. Dr. Littleton's Schism Impleaded.

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[1720]