ßz58) M. NO the Cafe is greatly diffèrent. Nature bindëth` alt` men to learn, that they, may know what is good or evil to themfelves. Learning and Knowledge is the common Duty and Intereft of mankind ; and though no man can be forced to Be- lieve and Repent ; he that is forced to Hear, may hear that which may make him Voluntarily Believe and Repent : You muft force your Children to Learn, but not to Communicate. I told you that to give a man the Sacrament, is to give hint a feal'd Pardon and Gift of Chrift and Life, which no unwil- ling man is capable of, but he may be capable to Hear and Learn. And this being only to thofe that are refuters of all Church- Communion, or are .uncapable, and are in none, either Ap- proved or Tolerated, what Confcience can fuch pretend againft hearing, or againft being reftrained from crimes and profan- ing holy things, or reproaching Religion, though they be not conftrained to what they are uncapable of L. I am fully fatisfied, that your way of dividing all the Sub- jetts into the 2ppzobcb, . the Softtattri and . the 3tttottrabie, is of abfolute neceffity. 4nd to conclude, I am fatisfied, that youNon- Conformifts have a Caffe JO good, that you do well to fiferfor it; but itere I ;in your cafe, l know not what dfbould do,myfelf. The fief') : and World are firong ; . and it's eafier to be convin- ced that one fhould be _a Martyr, than to fubmii to Martyrdom: God be merciful to our weaknefs, .wt, He trufteth not Chrift that thinks be Ihall be a lofer by shim ; and he thatwill fave his life from him by fin, (hall lofe it; and he that lofeth it.for him, (hall = fave.:it. L. X. Tour loth. for fame Toleration, will never be endu. red, though the truth is, : your Reafons for it are unanfwerable, and your Limitations.: fofiat, as prevent moft of the .Objeftions that might be made againft it. M. God's Law requireth forbearing and forgiving one another, and receiving the weak in Faith. And they that cannot Tolerate the Tolerable, methinks fhould fear the thoughts of death, left then God will not Tolerate them, but caft themput as they, raft out his Children. L. 1confefs you convince me, that know who mot patrons in England are, that it is unfit that all the Peoples Souls fhould be fo for at the mercy of thofe P4trons, that feem to , cart but littlefor their
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