380 The termes of ChurchUnity, well pleating to him , and neceffary to mens fal. vation, and to the Churches welfare, and to the fafetyof the livesof Kings, and of the Kingdoms peace ? And is there not thengreat mile to che- riíh it (though not the errours that ahufeit.) And fhould not all care be ufed to cure the ungodly world, ofimpiety and fearednefs of confcience, which makes themmake a mock of fin. And if confcience were once debauched and mafiered by fear, and the people be brought toprefer their their flefhly intereft before their fpiritual , and to fear mens puniíhment more than Gods, would not fuchdebauched confciences have a great ad- vantage, to make fuch men the mailers of the e Bates and livesofothers ? And are the lives of Kings , and the efrates of neighbours, and the peace ofKingdomes, competently fecured,where God is not feared more than fines or corporal penalties? Ninthly, ifforce be fo far followed tilt at haw! changed mens judgements or conquered confcience, or exterminated and deftroyed all that will not be thus changed or conquered, who differ from fuperiors in unneceffary things, will it not (all things well confidered)prove adear price for that which might be had at much cheaper rates ? Are not the moil confcientiods, necef- fary helpers ofthe Minif}ery, by their example, to cure the unconfcionablenefs of the reíl ? And therefore fhould be countenanced& encouraged? Tenthly, would not the ceffation of unnecef- fary impofitions, cal} out the moil: ofthe fcruples ofconfcientious people,,and ceafe the faddefr di - vifionsof the Churches ? IfRome could have been content with a Religion of no more Articles than the
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