Our next brand of vncharitablenes is our accustomary excommuni∣cations* 1.1 even for light offences in some, albeit others obstinate can be let passe. And to prove this he quotes Mr George Iohnson, & Mr White, the* 1.2 former an excommunicate himself, whom Mr B. also pag. 35. of his book calls a disgraceful libeller; the other an vngodly apostate, whose accusations have been answered one by one. A fit evidence for such a plea and plaintife.
But if Mr B. (knowing the fashions of the Church of England) had but once remembred the saying of the Lord Iesus, Mat. 7. 3. 4. 5. he would never have accused other Ch: of vncharitable and rash excommunications, which if they be a mote in the Church of Am∣sterdam are a beam in the Church of England, wherein there is more daunger of excommunication to them that feare God then to any other flagitious persons whomsoever.
Indeed no man can challendge Mr B. & his Church of Worx∣sop for any such heady and rash excommunications, they are very moderate this way, and can beare in communion with them any graceles person whomsoever til his dying day, and then commit ful charitably the body of their deceased brother to the grave, with a devout prayer for his joyfull resurrection: so charitable are they both to the living and the dead.
But the thing which most grieves Mr B, and at which he hath greatest indignation Pag. 62. is, that we will not heare his sermons though he preach nothing but the true word of God. And so he desires to