Zr3 :) C HAP. LU.I I.' Of theReafons for Conformity L 0 l%V 1 will tell you what I her J id againf your Nonö. Conformity, and I willgive you leave to anftver the Obje.. thoïii as we go on. Obj. L, It's commonlyfaid, that you are Fanatick perfons that build 411your difint onyour own private Spirits, andpretended Impul fes and lafpirations. 114. Have 1 pleaded with you any fuch Impulfes or Infpirations,, as the Reafons ofour DifTent ? h there any fuch thing in above loo Books that I have written? Did we ufe any fuch Argu- mentinour Difpute with the Bifhops ? but the Papifts call every mans Faith that is his Onm, andnot taken meerly on truft as the Churches Faith, by theName ofa Private Spirit. L. Obj. I I. They fay you make a Schifm and Stir for weer trifles and things indifferent, ,viz. Ceremonies and Liturgy ; confejfing that they are not unlawful. a M. z. And what if they`fay that we are Turk! or Heathens, or have Horns and are Brutes, what remedy have we ? To their honour be it fpoken, we would not hope to confute them. 2. Doyou not know that fo far are we from this, that even under the old eafier Impofirions, we protefted to the Biíhops in our Petitionfor Peace, That we would yield to any thing but Sina- gainft God, and we endeavoured toprove Conformity fanful ? And do they well agree with themfelves, when Dr. Stillingfleet faith, that I would reprefent Conformity fuch as Mould make them feem a company of Perjur'd Villains ? 3. I pray you tell me, whether the 5z Points now opened by me, be nothing but Liturgy and Ceremonies, and whether you take them all to be things indifferent. Is it not an odd fort of Accufers that we have,that fometimes fay we fufpeet the Nation of common Perjury, and the Church of Subverting, Corruption, and overthrow of Difcipline, and Excommunicating Chrifts Faithful Servants and Ihortlyafter fay,We Difient.only about things Indifferent ? God have mercy on thofe miferably : Souls that take fuch things for Indifferent. 4. Who is it troubles the Land with their things Indifferent ? Isit we? Did we.devife them ? ,Do we.icnpofe them on any, ancl.
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