( 444 . ;:cadily obey : But other wifeI would appeal toGod, and bear the Magiftrates perfecution. No means can be juftly pleaded ag::inn the end (and leaft ofall, a bare ceremony.) For it is no Means when it deftroyeth the end. 6. z o. On this account it is that it bath alwaies by wife men been reckoneda tyrannical unreafonable thing, to impofe all the fame ceremonies and circumRances upon all places as upon force ; and it bath been judged neceffary that every Church have their liberty to differ in fuch indifferent things, and that it hathbeen taken for wife mans duty, to conform his pra&ice in fuck indifferent circumf}ances, to the feveral Churches with which he ¡hall have communion,as Ambrofe profeffetbhe would. do , and would have others do the fame. 6. t r. Ifany think (as too many do) that fach a diverfity ofcircumftances is a diforder and confufìon,and not to be endu- red, I (hall further tell thefe men anon, that their opinion for anhypocritical unity and uniformity,is the true bane of Chrifti- an unity and uniformity, and that whichbath brought the con- fufionand bloodywars into the Chriflian world, and that our eyes havePeen, and our ears have heard of : And it were as wife an objection for them, ifthey fhould charge us inFritanie with Confufion, anddrive us to a feparation or divifion, becaufe the Scots wear blew caps, and the Engtálh hats : or becaufe force Erik/jib wear white hats and Tome black and foofother cir- cumftances. 6.12. Did I live in France or other Popifh Countries, or had lived in England at the abolition of Popery, I fhould have thought it my duty in many indifferent circumftances toaccom- modate my felfto the goodofthofe with whom I did converfe which yet in another Countrey, or at another time, when thofe things were as offenfive as then they were e{leemed, I durft not have fo done. And therefore our Common Prayer-Book it fell with its Ceremonies might be then commendable, in many parti- culars,which now are reformable. And fo in Ethiopia, Greece, or Spain,thofe things wouldbe very laudable,that arenow in Eng- landdefervedlyvituperable. And feveral Ceremonies in the pri mitive times had fach occafions and concomitants, that made: there tolerable that nowfeem lefs tolerable : Thecafe is not the fame , though theMaterialsbe thefame. CI=i AP.
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