tion of there daies, and to lay the unityor Peace oftheir Churches on it, and tocall out, cenfure, reproach, or punífh them that dare not obey fuch impoftions for fear of fining againft God. And it is a molt dìngenuous thing to infinuate and put into the minds ofmen accufations of the Impiety of the diffenters ; and to perfivade the world that it is irreligioufnefs, or humorous fñgularity, when it is fo knowna thing to all that know them, that the perfons that fcruplcor difown thefe dales, do ordinarily walk in uprightnefs and he ear ofGod in other matters, and profefs that it is only a fear of breaking the Laws of God that keeps them from conformity to the will of others a and that they are reproached by the multitude of the obfervers of there daies, for their fpending the Lords Day in Holy exercifes, which the rep roachers fpend too much in idlenefs, fenfuality or prophanefs ; and it is not long fince many of them were cart out of the Miniaerial fervice or fufpended , for not reading a Book authorizing Dancing andOther recreations on theLords. day. In a word, to reproach themas Precifians and. Puritans, for the aridnefs of their lives, andyet at the fame time to per fwademen that they arc ungodly for not keeping Holy daies, or not kneeling at the Sacrament, is not ingenuous dealing, and draws -too neer the Mannersofthe Pagans, who called the. Chrifiilns ungodly, becaufe theydura not offer their facriñces, and when they dragd them to the judgement -feats, they cryd Tollite impios, as it themselves were the Godly men: I compare not the matter ofthe caufes here, but only the temper of the perfons, and manner and juaiceofproceedings. S. 49. And yet for all this I am refölved, if I live where fuch Holy dales as thefe are obferved, tocenfure nomata for obferving them, nor would I deny them liberty to followiheirjudgements, if I had the power of their Liberties; provide4 they ufe not reproach and violence toothers, and feek not to deprive them of their Liberties. Paul hath fo long agoe decided there cafes, Rom. 14. & i 5. that if men would be Ruled by the word of God, the controverfie were, as to the troublefome part of it, at an end. They that through weaknefs obferve a Day to the Lord, that is not commandedthem of God, Ihould not judge their brethren thatobferve it not t and they that obferve it not, "fhould not defflife or fit at naught their weaker (though cenfo- rious)
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