Objeatonsaping praying by habit. 199 not what he will fay before I hear it r/inirx. For ought you know your Phyfician, or your Cook, may give you poifon, and your Nurfe may poifon your child : But though that fhould make you careful whom you truft, yet fomebody mutt be trufted for all that, You go not upon . certainty in any cafe where man is tobe trufted, but uponprobability. Men are not to be diftrnt- ed in their own profeffion, if they be lawfully called to it, by cautelous and able triers, till they have forfeited their truft : And as he would not mend the matter who fhould make a Law, that no Phyfician fhall give anymedicine but one and the fame to all in fuch difeafes, and that fetcht from the KingsApothecary ; And no C-ok fhall fell any meat but what is dreft by the Kings Cooks; for fear left they fhould poifon in ; fo he that would fay , No Paflor shall preach or pray but in prefcribed words left he fhould (peak herefie or blafphemy , would but defitroy the Paftoral office, for fear left it fhould be a7 bufed. But here you have no great temptation to this etreur ; Becaufe though a man may poifon your bodies againft your wills, yet noone can poyfon your fouls but by your ownconfent. Ifhe fpcak words of herefie or blafphemie , if you difow4 them in your minds, and confent not to them, they are none of yours , nor can do you hurt They may be your temptation and your grief, but they are not your fin. And yet I (hall tell you in the next direction, how far they are to be avoided. Obj. Brit ( fay thole on the other extrcam ) Q frkrri
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