Ir 97 ) fort ofEpifcopacy did, before the abolition. z. And of all the hurt that it might do again if it were introduced : which is nei- ther fmall, nor uncertain : He that bath feen the fruits that it brought forth but for a few years before the abolition , and weighs the arguments brought againa ir, methinks fhould fear to be the reftorer ofit. Sea. 21. If any man ( as Mr. Thorndike andothers do) fhail write for a more regular fort ofEpifcopacy, its one thing to find a tolerable Bilbop ix his Book, and another thing to find him exi- Item in Engiand : For we knownot ofany New fort of Regu- lated Epifcopacy planted : and therefore muft fuppofe that it is theOld fort that is in being. Let them bring their Moderate forms into exiftence, and then its like that many may be more inclined to fubmit to their Ordination : but their moderate prin- ciples having not yet made us any Moderate Epifcopacy, Flee not how we fbouldbe ever the more obliged for them to fubmit to theOld : but rather are the more justified in difowning in,when, their own reformed modell is apina it. CG 3i CFIAP,
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