z26 When %o come near toothers. out Law ; and to become as weak to them that are n e4k, to gain the weak, and to be made all things to all men toPave lame, this is far from the religion of the Separatifls. What abundance of thingsdo many now blame , and cenfure others' for as temporizers, which they have nothing a- gainft (that may be called Reafon) but only that their neighbours ufe them ? If a man hand up at the profeifìon of the Belief;or if he Eland up when the Pfalmsand Hymns of Praife to God are titte- red , they fay , he conformeth to the geflures of the Congregation : and make that his difpraife which is his praifeo- And what Is not handing a fit geflure to profefs our Faith in i? and a fit ge- flure topraije God in ? Or is it praife-worthy to be odd and fin ular in the Church ? and not to do as the refs of the Church Both ? sitin profeffed his refolution , in all fuch gellures and lawful orders to do as the Church Both where he is: And 'all would have us with one mouth as well as with onemind to glorifie God. I/ entreat thefe men to mark whether it was Chríft or the Phari- fees that came neareíl to their way , and whom thaynow imitate ? Was it for going too far from fanners that the Pharifees did cenfure Chrifi ? Or was it not for eating and drinking with Pub1,- cans and inners ( though he did it not to harden them in their fin, but as a Phyfician converfing with the fick to heal them) was it not for Sab- bath-breaking andnot being feria enough in fuch mat ers, that they were offended with Chrift'and his.difciples ? 'The cafe is plain : But corrupted nature more fpvcureth the feparating zeal of the Tharifees, t than the Lo , ginning zeal of Chrift; And
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