,(432) are ready to obey them, ifthey dunk'; the queflionthat neeel yer concerneth your own confciences (that are the impofers to difcufs, is, what reafonyou have to drive all men from Gods. Church and fervice, that (fuppofe through their imperfection) dare not conform themfelves in worfhip to your pleafure ? Where bathGod fee you on fuch a work, or given you any fuck commilíion ? 4. And where you fay, They fhould not difturb the Chasrch ;I anfwer,Are you foblind that you fee not that it is you that difturb the Church? Ifyouwill make fuch lawswithout neceffity, which common wit and reafon may tell you, all men are never like to be fatisfied inand obey, and then call out all that will not obey them, as the diflurbersof theChurch, this is but an aggravated felt-condemning, If they be guilty, you are fo much more: If they fin and diflurb the Church by difobedience, you diflurb it much more finfully, by laying fuch fnares as ¡hall unavoidably procure ir, and then taking occafionby it, tomake agreater diilurbance byyour cruelexecution. Ifthe Fly offendand deferve death by incau- telous falling into theSpiders web,what doth the Spider deferve, that out ofher own bowels fpred thsnet in the way, and kils the Fly that's taken in it ? (yet drawno venom from the fimilitude, for it runs not on all four, nor is it my meaning to apply the venom toyou.) Your own allions molt concern your felves. Try whether you dowell incommanding and punifhing, as well as whether othersoffend indifobeying.I ¡hall provoke all to obe- dience in things lawful : But if they fhould obeyyou (more perfeály then God,) you may yet be condemned for your wick- acd cruel Laws. CHAP.
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