ted atad difquieted, and the Churches diftur,bed and divided ; by departing from primitive fm plicity, I íhall onlynow propofe this to the confidera- tion of thole of the firíl fort. Whether they are fure that there fuperflition; oftheirs may nut run the round as otherfuperiL tonshave done before them ? Or force of them at leafl ? What ifthe next age Mould turnthem into a dead formality ? And what if thenext age after that fhould make Laws to enforce them ? And then Godly people firli fcruple them , and then flye from them as difcerned fuperftition ? Arad then the worn men be gladof that advantage to perfecute thole that would not fubmit to them? By this circulation, if the fame men who invented nn-ordained Elders, ne;, andneedlefs Church-Cave- nants,&c. could but live two or 3eo years, they might come to be among the number of thole who cry out of them as faerftiticus, and fuffer perfecution becaufe they will not ufe them. Yea there are among you now many things of a louver nature, which Lome dare fcarce plainly fay, God commandeth or forbiddeth, and :yet they are cenforious enough 'about them : As here- tofore manywere agairiíi wearing the hair of any confiderable length ; Againfl wearing cuffs up- on a day of humiliation : Againil dre[ling meat or feafling at leaf}, on the Lordsday ( which is a day ofThankfgivingof divine inflituti*n) and held, Teat it is neceffary to feaft twice at leaf}, upon a day of Thankfgiving (ofmans ap- pointment :) That a Minifler thould not lift up his eyes, much lefs kneel down to fgnifte his Y 3 privare
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