,,......r . _ 96r 1 fe (tate of the Chr0a414 Cha,ches,` Chriflians making up the ref). And of thefe Pro- tenants, Sweden, Denmark, Saxoiy, and many other parts of Germany, making up the greateft part, are filch as are called Lutherans ! And of the other half, which are fppofed to be more Re- formed, there is fcarce any of fo Reformed lives as thefe in England and Scotland : Ard among thefe, howgreat a number are they that you fe- parate from ? If you look to the Papif?s, their worfhip is by theMafs : If you look to t`e Muf- covians, they have a Liturgy much mere blame- able than ours, and have a fewHomilies inflead ofpreaching is Ifyou look to the Greek Church to the Armenians, the Abaflìnes, and all the Ea- {tern (tern and the So irhern Churches, in Ufa and f1_ frica, they alfo rvorfhip God by Liturgies, much more lyab!e to blame than ours, and have but lit- tle preaching among them, betides Homilies; and the Members of their Churchesare common- ly far more ignorant than the wort}of ó:írs, even than the rudeit part of Ti'ales. Ifyou look to the Lutherans, theyhave Liturgies, and Ceremonies, and Images in their Churches,though not adoredi and havefar worfe Preachers, and of worfe lives, and more unprofitable preaching than is ufually, found with us ; and the people more ignorant and vicious, If you look to the remnant, called the more Reformed Churches, in Holland, France, Helvetia, Germany, though they have much lefs of Liturgy, or Ceremonies, yet are their Church - members ufually as ignorant as ours; and more addied to intemperance, and there is no lefs fcandal in' their lives, than among ours. Now this being the true }late of the world' and though
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