438) them, or elfe will do nothing,becanfe they cannot refolve which way to do it. For infgance : if fitting, (landing and kneeling be equal- ly convenient at the /7nging of Gods Praifes , if the people be in a doubt which to ufe , or at leafl if they fall into con- tention about it , may net the Governours interpofe and limit them to one I If you be the conduílor ofTravail rs or Souldiers, and they come to a place where the way divided) , though both wayes are equrlly good and veer yet you muff command them one way, and choofe for them, becanfe elfe they will go no way at all. §. 16, .Anfw. i. In this cafe you are not to choofe one Ge- flare or one Way rather then another, unlefs they make is ne- ceffary by Accident. But tell them of the Indifferency and Equality, and drive them on toAA ion. And fo you only choofe- and caufe them to choofe ,Rion before Cefation , but not this way before that. 2. If this will not ferve but they will do nothing, unlefs you determine of their çeflure or way, you muff then command one rather then another , be- caufe they can ufe but one , and Tome one they mutt ufe. But in thus doing your comparing, taking This rather then the other, is not to be done by Eleftion, nor be a humane set, there being no more Reafon ( chats fufpofed) for one then for the other. But though you name them one Way or Geflure only ( when they neceffitate it, ) you do it but as chocfing their AEI-ion before their ceffation ç this therefore is all that is Moral in your A& : and that you Determine them to Action by Naming This way and not the other, is good ( for the Determination for Duty fake was eligible : ) but that it was rather to This then the other, was Indifferent, and not Moral : For of that you had no Reafon : and where there is no Reafon, there is noMorality. t . 17. All this confidered, I leave it to the confederation of common Reafon , and of men that have any piety for the Church or their own fouls, whether it be a Prudent or Chrifli. an courfe to make Laws for the Church about things IndiTe. rent, that have nothing in the Nature of them to induce them hereunto : and then to call out Miniflers and other Chrifiians for not obeying them, and deprive men of thegreatefl bleflings, on the t ccount of things indifferent. §. z 8;
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