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Rev. Samuel W_iti_g. i37
as it is to be regularly & orderly dispensed to
the propper subjects of it in the administration
of doctrine & worship, according to divine
institution & the apostollicall patterne in con-
gregationall churches, & that in that way of
reformation which is according to the word
of God, & which wee haue professed & prac-
tised before the world, not receeding from the
safe & sober principles of the congregationall
way la.jd in the first foundation of these
churches by our first sound & sincere reform-
ers, yet vtterly disclayming (according to that
serious & solemne caution published by the
presse) all spurious principles & practises, as
those of seperation, Anabaptisme, Morellian
(anarchicall) confusion, & licentious tolleration,
which is no part of our cause, nor of the end
& designe of the Lords faithfull servants, when
they followed him into this land.
This solemne profession we make as a vinde-
cation of our integrity & innocency_ from the
vnjust charge of innovation, which, wth a loud
cry & clamour of apostacy, is laid vpon the
generality of the ministry of these churches;
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