t53 i j and increafe the flame. . And d dreadfui odious Cafe ! All is as for GoJ, and Religion ·and tl1e' Church, that is thus done againfl God, Religion,_ the Church and the whole Land&.our Pofierity. , §.XV. And by our feveral ways of Unjuft and Caufelefs ImpoGtidns, we have hardened the Pa..: pifi:s in defending. their more nurrietods Snares; They fay, If an Independent Church may bind its Memb~rs, to take their Covenants, to fubmit t(j _their popular Examinations and Difdpline,to avoid Communion with the Parilh Churches, and not td f01-fake their Church but by tryed Reaforl,or Con– fent : And if a Convocation ·may impofe vvhat is done in England oil terms fo iharp 5 why may no ti - the Pafi:ors and Councils that have great~r Ch~rge and Power, do as much and more? ~ XVLThe Sectarian weak,headed parf. ofPrc1, teftants have greatly advastaged Popery , by their' ignorant calling every Ceremony, and Form, ,and Opiniotuhat they difi:afi:e, by the Name of Ami– thriftian : and fa:ying~ 0 this is Popia1, or raked out of the Mafs-Book ~ when fomeofthem know not what Antichrifl-iahity is, faving as every Sill againfl: Chrifi is Antichriftian, nor know they .what tpe Mafs-Book is, nor wha:t Popety is ; And its ~ell if fome knew better.what Chriflianiiy is. When men hear that a Bilhop ; a Surplice, ,d: ft;~mpttious (:hurch Edifice~ aCerernony, the Li.;. ·turgies-, ·a Holy~day (and it's well if not ·the rife of , -the Creed and Lord's Prayer) be A michrifiiafi:; ·they ate retppted to think that Popety called Anti~ thriftianity is no worfe a thing than thefe; and fd .honour Popery; and deride hsAccilfers. , . . I would thefe named wei'e all the wtdngs that. · Pfotefiants have done to the J:l.rOtefiant Caofe of M m ~ •Refonnyt;
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