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12 "Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven." (Matt. xviii. 18.)

"Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained." (John xx. 23.)

"Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world." (Matt. xxviii. 20.)

9thly. hath appointed the Church as the only way unto eternal life. We read at the first, that the added daily to the Church such as should be saved; and what was then done daily, hath been done since continually. never appointed two ways to heaven; nor did he build a Church to save some, and make another institution for other men's salvation. "There is no other name under heaven given unto men, whereby we must be saved, but the name of ," and that is no otherwise given under heaven, than in the Church.

Here, then, I finish my series of arguments. Not that there are not many others, which might be brought forward, to show that Dissent is wrong; but I prefer confining my remarks at those which have something in common with one another. The principles upon which all the reasonings here given are in some sort founded, are. 1. the Christian duty of obedience; 2. of preserving unity; 3. of avoiding, in all cases where we can with a safe conscience, any giving occasion of offence, or pain, or perplexity, to our Christian brethren:—in other words, the duty of having an eye always to, i.e. brotherly love, in our way of performing our duties, especially those about the limits of which we are not quite sure.