228 Wherein lies that ExafRighteoufnefs, > hich Senn, to, 7. In matter of dutyand obedience; We muff give that honour to our Parents, which wewould expel fi orn our Children ; and pay that reverence to Makers, which we would exact from our Servants ;We mull rife up before the gray head,and give refped to old Age ? For let not us think,but that the change ofRe /at ion and of Ale will have the fame effect upon us,which it bath upon the reft of the World : It is a folly to talk, that when weare oud, we fhall be pleated with the infolencies of Youth; when We are Mafiers, we ftaai! not be at all offended with the contemptuous . carriage ofour Servants ; that it will not touch our hearts , to have our Children undutiful! and void of refpeci, to fee the fruit ofour body, unnaturall and unkind to us. 8. In matters of freedome and liberty ; which are not determined by any naturali or pofitive Law, we muff per- mit as mudh to others, as we affume to our felves. and this is a fign of an equal( and temperate perfon, and one tint juftly values his own underfiand and power. But there is nothing wherein men ufually deal more un, equally with one another, than in indifferent opinions and prathces of Religion : I account that an indifferent opini- on which good men differ about, not that fuch an opinion is indifferent as to truth or errour, but as to falvation or damnation it is not of necefiary belief; By an indifferent practice in Religion , I mean that which is in its own na- ture neither a duty nor a fin to do or omit. WbereI am left free I would not have any man to rob me of my liber- ty , or intrench upon my freedome, and becaufe he is -fa- tisfi:d, fuch a thing is lawful! , and fit to be done , expect I fhou!d do it, who think it o:herwife; or becaufe he is confident fuch an opinion is true, .b angry with me, becaufe I cannot believe as fall as he. Now if another do ill, in doing thus to me, I cannot do well in 'doing fo to another. And do not fay that thouart fore thou art in the right and he that differs from thee in the wrong, and therefore thou mayeft impofe upon him though he may not upon thee ; hach not every man this confidence of his own opinion and practice, and ufually the weakeft caufe bears up with the greatefi con- fidence ; now if thou wouidefl not have another that is confi- dent
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