AN

ABRIDGMENT

OF THE

CONTROVERSY

BETWEEN THE

CHURCH OF ENGLAND,

AND THE

New PSEUDO-PRIMITIVES.

WHERE IN

The chief Arguments on each Side are propos'd in fo
fhort and plain a Method, as may render it generally
ufeful, even to Perfons of the meaneft Capacity:
In a DIALOGUE

BETWEEN

NEOPHYTU s, an Effentialift Clergyman,

AND

IRENEUS, a Layman of the Church of England.

The SECOND EDITION.

With an APPENDIX, vindicating both the Abridgment,
and the hiftorical Account of the first Review of the English
Liturgy, prefix'd to Bishop Sparrow, from the trifling Cavils,
and grofs Mifreprefentations of a late Anonymous Pamphlet,
call'd, The common Chriftian inftructed, &c.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of
us, they would no doubt have continued with us; but they went out,
that they might be made manifeft, that they were not all of us.
1 John ii. 19.

LONDON:

Printed for CHARLES RIVINGTON at the Bible and Crown in
St. Paul's Church Yard. 1722.

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THE

PREFACE:

T

HE NEW SEPARATION from our Church had never gain'd fo many Profelytes, if the Reasons on which it is grounded had been impartially compar'd with thofe folid Answers, which have been given to even every the leaft Shadow of an Argument, which the indefatigable Labour, and excellent Wit of its Defenders could invent. What has deterr'd feveral well-meaning Perfons from studying the Controverfy, as they ought, is partly its Bulk, partly its being above their Capacity: They

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