ude them.
_Answer 1_. We have particular commands about this, and many examples of
it, which we have not about separation from a true church, and lawful
worship. Union and conjunction with an enemy renders conjunction, and
their fellowship, more dangerous and infectious than conjunction in a
church state. Judah might not separate from these Israelites in lawful
ordinances, or from the ordinance [because] of their presence. And yet
they might not help them nor take help from them. Paul did not exhort any
to separate from the worship at Corinth, because of the presence of
scandalous persons at it and yet he charges them not to converse with such
brethren as walk disorderly. Notwithstanding of union in church and state,
we may look on many as such as should not be joined with in some other
bonds. It is not lawful for a godly man to marry a profane woman, though a
visible professor, he may not join in such a tie, although he ought not to
separate from church worship for her presence. _Besides_, there is a
conjunction in arms for one cause, as necessarily makes men partakers of
the same blessings and cursings, and therefore we should give the more
diligent heed, when we partake with them in lawful things. 3. Are we all
tied, by such particular oaths and solemn vows, not to join with the
scandalous persons of a congregation in lawful worship, as we are, not to
associate with the malignant party in the defence of the cause of God, and
kingdom? It cannot be said. Therefore the cases are not paralleled.

We shall close all with a testimony of one of the Lord's most faithful
witnesses, Mr. Gillespie, whose light in this case was once very
seasonably held forth, and effectual to the preventing of the declining of
this land and we hope it will not be wholly forgotten by them, with whom
it had weight then. In his letter to the General Assembly, 1648, he
sayeth, "I am not able to express all the evils of compliance, they are so
many. Sure I am, it were a hardening of the malignant party, a wounding of
the hearts of the godly, a great scandal to our brethren of England, an
infinite wronging of those who, from their affection to the covenant and
cause of God, have taken their life in their hand, who, as they have been
strengthened and encouraged, by the hearing of the zeal and integrity of
the well affected in this kingdom, and how they oppose the late
Engagement, so they would be as much scandalized to hear of a compliance
with maligna