Matthew 13:47

The design and scope of this parable also is to set forth the state of the gospel church, which is like. floor, where chaff is mixed with wheat;. field, where tares are mixed with good corn;. net, where bad fishes are involved with the good. As the wheat must not be removed out of the floor before the time of winnowing; nor the tares gathered out of the field before the time of reaping; nor the good fishes break through the net to get from the bad before the time of separation; so must not Christians forsake. church's communion, because of the present mixture of good and bad in the church. For. mixed communion, in the church, and the good Christians communicating with the bad, do neither defile the ordinances of Christ, nor pollute those that sincerely join in them.