2.33:: fleeping., And;yet in their propertime, your fervants working, and your eating and Ileepiing is better than praying at that time. One that is -a Son, aServant, a Wife, who is commanded by -are Mailer of the Family to hear a tolerable Pariah-Minifter, may then find" it better than diforderly anddifobedieifly tohear an abler.Man ;,. that may byvariety of conditions be one mans Duty, which is anothers fin. But alas ! I fear that Communion with a NonConformift- Church will quickly inEngland be fo rare, as will end the contro: verfy which you Would Pr.eferr, and you muff have Parifh- . Church Communion or none : As it was before 1 638, when there was fcarce more than one NomConformift that held any Church - Communion but Parochial, in each County. I think, - G'od's Judgments will foon filence this difpute with all that will not renounce all"Local- Church Communion. I will conclude with another reafort of my'.praEtice. Almoft every °Church on Earth bath;, a worfe, Liturgy (as I Paid) and People than ours : But"I dare not feparate from almoft every Church on Earth': And therefore not from one for reafon that is common to almolt all. CH A P. L IX. ADrau,ht of ten Articles containing that which the Non-Con,forming Reconcilers defre, touniteus, andheal the Church, when . G 0 .D Teeth this Land `,riteet for fo great a Mercy, L. r Have one thing more to defare ofyou, That you willfofar an. fiver thecommon queftion ..What would you have ? As to tell it us punctually, as to tbofe things whichyou take to be necefJary to our agreement : It may be hereafter they may be regarded: andufed, th-o' not inour days. M. Doyou mean'as to the ends and thingsdefired of us or a formof Words to he the containing means ? As to the for- mer; I. Wedeliire nothing but the promoting 'God's Glory, Kingdom and Will, according to the three fir.ft Petitions in the 'Lord's Prayer, for the Information, Sanftificationand Salvation of thePeople; by the Pure, Plentiful, and Powerful preaching of the Gofpel, the True andSpiritual Worfhipping of`G OD, and thedue Exercife ofChúrch-Difcipline according to. Chrift's 'Laws. And that herein all Chriftians may live in Love, and H h Peace,
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