A GUIDE TO THE CHURCH; IN SEVERAL DISCOURSES. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, TWO POSTSCRIPTS; THE FIRST, TO THOSE MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH WHO OCCASIONALLY FREQUENT OTHER THE SECOND, TO THE CLERGY. A new Introductory Preface to the Reader. LIBRAR I REV. CHARLES DAUBENY, ARCHDEACON OF SARUM WITH "There shall be no Schifm in the Body." 1. Cor. xii. 25. SECOND EDITION, pita PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, LONDON; BY R. CRUTTWELL, BATH. 1804. PREFFAC CONTENTS. On the Reafons generally advanced to justify a Separation from the Church; and first, on the fuppofed fpiritual Qualification On the Right of Private Judgment in Religious Matters On the Advantages attendant upou a confcientious Communion with the Church; together with the Difadvantages confe- TO THE READER. THE following HE following Discourses were originally defigned for private circulation in a particular parish. Being written for that purpose, their accommodation to the existing state of that parish constituted of course the principal object in view. Should therefore fome parts of the fubject be more dilated, than may be thought neceffary for general informa tion; or fome circumftances noticed which might have been omitted; the candid reader will, it is hoped, make allowance for what on these accounts may be an unwelcome trespass upon his time. Thus much may be proper to fay in behalf of the Discourses before him. it As an excufe, if excufe be neceffary, for the alteration of my plan in giving them to the public, I have to plead, that upon their revifal for the prefs, they were judged to convey fome information applicable to the general circumftances of Chriftians in this |