;60 ) 'La :vfnll ; yct in the a 5 ua'1 exercife hic & nunc, it will be hard to find one aduall ufe of ít, which is not a duty,or a fin. For though I am not of their mind that think every adboth (imply and refpedively contidered is a duty., or ,a fin (For then every admull be ATMs Moralis, and fo deliberate and chofen,which is not true; ss for initarce, the winking of the eye, &c. 2. Then nothing were indifferent. 3,Then every ad muff have a Reafon for it. 4. And the Confciences of Chrillians mull be perpetually tormented: as e.g. to give a reafon when I walk, why I fet the right foot forwardbefore the left ; or when two eggs of a bignefs are before me, why I take one rather then the other : thereare not moral ads.) Yet I mutt needs think that in the worfhip of God, its hardto imagine fuch a cafe, in which the utng ofa Liturgy will doneither good nor harm : Or in which a mancannot difcern, whether it be like todo more good or harm : and fo make it the matter of eleâion or refufal. And therefore as Paul makes Marriage indif fèrent in it felf , when its hard to find a cafe , in which it fhall not be a dutyor a fin to particular perfons,fo fay I ofthe point in quefiion:and yet pofl.- bly fometime fuch cafes there may be. A man fometimes in Pru- dence may find that conflantly to ufe a formwould be tohim a fin, by reafon of the ill confequents, and fo it wouldbe con -` Randy to difufe it : And thereforemay findhimfelf bound(by accident) fometimes to ufe,and fometimes to difufe it : And yet may fee no reafon at all as to the particular day andhour, why he fhould ufe or difufe it this day rather then another,or in the the Morning rather then the Evening. 2. Note allo that God being the fupream Lawgiver of the Church, having by Mofes given aLaw to Ifrael, did in general command, Deus. 12.3a. that they fhould add nothing thereto, nor take ought therefrom: And confequently, we may conclude it prohibitedunder the Gofpel; Nay indeed the very prohibitionof felf-idolizing makes it a fn for any manep arrogate that Legif- lation which is the Prerogative of God. For that were to deifie hinafelL And fo this General prohibition doth make all un- warrantable Additions to be fìnfull, that is, all Additions which God hashnot authorizedmen tomoke. But then, Inch aJdtions are not fnfull formally, becaule not commanded, but becaulefo=bidden by the General prohibition of not adding.] Now
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