188 Scorning at others Prayers. at firangers as if they were cloathed in fools Coats. So many do by the cloathing of other mens devotions. Some fcorn at extemporary prayers, and °forne fcorn at Forms and Liturgies And the Litany they call conjuring, and theRe- fponfes they take for a formal jocular playing with holy thins ; when in all thefe, the humble heavenly Chrifian,is lifting up his foul to God. By this petulant carnal kindofzeal, I remem- ber our divifions were here raifed at the firít To deride the Commonprayer,andderide them that ufed it,was too common with forne kind ofreli- gious people : And they excufed it by Elias his example, As ïf Idolaters, and the true i orfhippers ofGod, that differ from as in a Form, or Ceremo- ny were all one. I remember how fame of the contrary mind were inflamed to indignation by fach fcorns,when they were going into theChurches in London, and heard fomeSeparatifís that lookt in at the Church door, fay, [ The Devil choke thee , art thou not ow of thy pottage yet? ] becaufe the Common Prayer was not ended. So little did men know what fpi- rit they were of. But wife and holy Mr. Hif- der(ham, Mr. fohn Full, Mr. Bradfhagi, Mr. John Paget , and other learned Non-conformiíis of old, did forefee and greatly fear this Spirit. It is a dangerous thing to [corn and jell at any thing that'is done about Gods worfhip, though it Mould be it Pelf unwarrantable ; while you fcorn at one ano±hers worfhip of God, you raife a bold unreverence and contempt of holy things in the burerr, and perhaps before you are aware in your feives too. And you will teach thÿ Atheift to fcorn
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