in the guilt of perfectttion : For no better will it prove, even in many cafes where therefufers fcruples are unjuft. 4. By this means theywill hinder the Edification of the ('hurch, What if a Minifier bave a Congregation that (fuppofe upon miftakes) do fcruple thefe forms, and by prejudice or weaknefs are hindered from ferving God with cheerfulinefs and profit, where they are ufed ; mult we be bound to deny them that mode of worfhip which their weaknefs doch require ? and to force them to that which will not down with them ? Muft a Phyfitian be bound to give all his Patients one kindof dyet ? What if it be wholefome ? Will you fay, If that will not down with him, heJhall have none : let himdie ? This is contrary to the end of our office : we are commanded todo all to Edification, which this Both contradict. 5. It is contrary to the Office, Power and 7rufi of the particu- lar Pafiors of the Church, to be thus compelled in variable things. As it is the office of a PhyfiOan to judge what dyet and phyfick to prescribe his Patients, and to vary it as perlons do vary in their tempers and difeafes, and to vary it with the fame perlons, as their condition changeth and requireth it : and as it would be foolifh Tyranny againft the very office of the Phyfitian to re- ftrain him from this exercifeof his prudence by a Law, and to tye him to give one kind of food or phyfick to all ; fo is it in our prefent cafe. What is a Paflor, but the guide of a Congre- gation in the worfhipof God ? erc. And if -Mag.iftrates and Bifhops take this workout of their hands by their unneceffary pmfcriptions, they fo far prohibite him to do the work of a Pattor. What a grief is it to a Minifler ( that being- in the place, and knowing the people, is the moll competent Judge what is fit for them ) to be conftrained by men that know not the Pateof his föck, to crois their Edification, and to be -for- biiddento ufe -his prudence and due power for their fpiritual good ? 6. Andwhat a finful arrogant ufrerpation isv this, for any man to be guilty. of ? It is Chrift that bath given his MiniPers their Power, and that for Edification : andwho is he that may pre- fume to take it from them? If they are unworthy to be Mini- flers, let them not be Ordained, or let them be degraded or depofed. But if. they tnuft be Minifters, let Cl em do the- work of
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