(431) head inpreaching: but it werenot well if you would inflitute the wearing of a Helmet to fignifie our Spiritual miliria, ani then refolve thatall {hall be filenced and imprifoned during life that will not wear it. It is lawfull for me to ufe fpeâacles, or togoon crutches : But will you therefore ordain that all men hall read with fpeâacles, to fignifieour want of fpiritual fight : and'that no man thall go to Church but on crutches, to fignifie our difabiüty to come toGod of our felves ? So hat, ti- als , it is lawful forme to wear a feather inmy and a hay- ropefor a girdle,and a haircloth fora cloak. But if you fhould ordain that if any man ferve God in any other habit, he fhali bebanifhed, or perpetually imprifoned or hanged, in my opinion you did not well efpecially if you add, that he that difobeyeth you mutt alfo incur everlafting damnation. It is in itfelf lawfull to kneel when we hear the Scriptures read, or when we fing Pfalms : but yet it is not lawfull todrive all from hear.. ing and tinging, and lay them in prifon teat do it not kneeling. And why men fhouldhaveno communion in the Lords Supper that receive it not kneeling(or in any one commanded gefture,), andwhy men fhould be forbidden to preach the Gofpei, that wear not a linnen furplice, I cannot imagine any fuch reafon as will hold weight at the bar ofGod,_ §. 6. If you fay,:_ why Amid we not be obeyed in indf rent' things ? and why fbossld men trouble the peace of the Church ?. I aniwer. r. Sublets mutt obey in all things lawfull. 2. But your firft queflion fhould be, why you fhould command, and thus command unprofitable things ?twill you command all men to wear horns on their bead in token ofpufhing away their fpiritu all enemies; andwill you refolve that God (hall have no fervice, . nor men any Sacraments or Church communion; no nor the liberty ofthe common air,nor falvation neither, unlefs theyljwill obey you ? And then will ou condemn them, and juftifie your felves by faying [why fhould not the Church be obeyed?] 3. You govern not perfect but impel& men ; and therefore you. muff rule them as they are,and fit your laws about things indiffe- rent to their flate,and not expeä perfeâion of underftandingand` obedience from them, when God himfelf espetech it not fûppofe therefore they manifeft their imperfeâion in not. dif- cerntngthc.Lawfulneisofyyur commands, profe fling that they. are=.
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