;2.6 ) norant Congregations that had ignorant and drunken guides, where Piety was fcorned as Puritanifm, and impiety made a thingof nothing , andwhere Satan was focommonly ferved ; the many hundred Congregations in England that never knew what true Difcipline meant, nor never íáw in all their lives, a drunkard, oppreffor, railer, blasphemer, either caft out, or pe- nitently confe£s his fin, before the Church , all thefe were not. well,though you were well. z. Whether we werewell before, I have (hewed in my firft Difputation, and thither I refer you. 3. And whether we have brought inanew Epifcopacy,or only cap out a newone , and defire to bring in the Old, weare content to put it toan equal tryall. Weall concurr in offeringyouthis mo- tion. Letthe oldeftHand, and the neweft becaft out. 4. z8. Objed. 8. judge now by the :effetis : The Epifcopacy which yore blame , did keep up Order and 'Unity in theChurch : It lops under thofe weeds of herefie anderror that lincefprung up :We had then no Quakers nor Seekers, norfuch other Seal a.' no* Abound This fwarm of Errors (hews which Government isheft. 4. 29. Anfw. Thís is agrofs fallacy, ei nencaufa procaufa: to which I return you my anfwer in there fey-en confiderátions. a .You tell us of the good that you think you did: but you tell us nct of thehurt. I lope I love Divifions or Heretics as little as ever a Bithop inEngland : andyet I mutt profefs that I had ra- ther an hundred times, have thingscontinue as they are with all our fwarms of herefies,then to be reflored to their ancient pia. Our lofs is as great as7ofephsin being removed from the Prifonto Pharaohs ungodly family : I mean in fpirituals (of fecùlars anon.) I knownot ofan Anabaptift,Separatifl, Quaker or any other Scetary_inthe Townthat I live in,for all this noire ; uniefs youwill take a few Infidels for Sectaries, or a few ignorant Pa- pith, or thofe ofyour own way. But onthe other fide, I hope there are many hundreds that truly fear God , that formerly were drowned in ignoranceand ungodlinefs. The families that were wont to curfe and fwear and rail at Godlinefs,donowwor- fhip_God,and fet upholy 'infrut` ions and`cafl out fin :'and this is ourchange. And in forme n afure I bave`reafois'to believe that it is fo in other places ajlfo. 4. 30. 2. TheErrors of the timesaremany ofthemyourown, and therefore you exclaim ägai ftyour felves. It is f your owls felvet
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