196 We dre xsotvoilty of ail fore. llo you ever pray your (elves in fecret or in your families without fin ? Muff all feparate from you for this ? Or maynot you bear mothers ,, failings as patiently as your own ? Your own you are fill guilty of, besaufe they are your own but not of another mans whichyou cannot help. If I believed that I were partaker ofthe guilt ofall the falle doarine, or faulty preach- ing, or prayer which was ufed in the Church where I am , I would flÿe from all the Chur- chLs in the world : But whither to go 1 could not tell, Obj. But if I joyn with them that wórfhip god amiß, do I not approve of theirfin orfigni f e my confent to it? (infix. Approving and contenting are aósof your ownd : and whether you do fo or not, is bet+ known to your Pelf : But it is a Profeffie4 of content that we have now to fpeak of. And I fay than our prefence at the prayers of the Church, is no profeffion of confent to all that is faulty in thofe prayers. Why do you not offer to prove it to be fo, but barely affirm it without any proof ? I-ne- ver hearda-word of proof for this bare affercion' to this day. But its eafily difproved. Firs no man cm in reafon and juflice take that for my Profeffon , which I never made by word nor deed, according to the common fenfe of words and aEions But according to this common fente I never did byword or deed pro- fefs that 1 confent to all which is uttered by the P flor in the publike prayers. Secondly, When theprofeflion which we make by our Church-commun.on is publikclf declared to,
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