.I' [ 288 ] · We lhall in due time enquire whether we are all bound to fiand to thefe changes, on pain of all the fcorn and fufferings that the followers of them will lay upon us. · , Will you know more of this Self-confutation? Inhis Preface he faith, [P. 4· "Ifuppofe all Churches '~ Originally e.qual, and that they have fince fobmit- " .ted to prudential Compafls. · But are not all we (poor nothings then) obliged on pain of damnation to fiand eo all chat our Fore· fathers did ? And muft we nor take the Imperial "· Subjet.ts of Afia, Africa and Europe, (we know not who) for our Fore-fathers in Brittain? and be of that Heathens mind that drew back from Bap– tifrn, when he heard his Fore-fathers ·were in Hell, and faid, that he would be where they were? No, this moderate man tells you, ['' Though they "may oblige them as lovg as the reafon of theft Com– " pacts laj!s, and as far tJS the equity of thofe Com- . "pafl1 may hold, .as to the tnte defign of thofe that '~ made ·them, and as far as tho{e Compacts have "meddled with the alienable Rights of Particular "Churches; yet where anJ.. of thefe Conditions fail; "there the Particular Churches are at liberty to re- , ··"fume their Antient Rig~~s. · . Obj. Yea, ht:Jt who thall judge when any of of thefe Conditions fail ? · · He anfwers next [ .And I fuppofe the power of judging when thcfe Cond#ions fail toiJe ·an unalienable Right of Par(icular Churches, .and not only to judge with the 1udgment of private dj{cretion, bJtt [rtch a 'Judgment as may be· an aut'hentic/z. meafure of her own praflice. · . / We thank you Sir, that you give us fo fair ,suarter·: But if you had ~19t, had }Ye knhown ~ · • w ere,
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