C 451) not toward theEaf},or when you pray & receive the Sacrament; Kneelingon the Lords Dayes, would you be taken to feparate from the Catholick Church, for crating its ancient cuftoms, or Canons ? But thefe perverfe and fat3ious reafonings we mull hear to the difhonour ofChriftianity and Reafon it telf,and that from men that fcorn the fuppofedmcannefs ofothers ; yea and fee poor fouls feduced into feparation by fuch empty words I And this is one of the prefent judgements on this land. CHAP. X. Prop. 1 Oo .I If it be not our Lapfull governours that command us , but ufurpers, we are not formally bound to obey them, though the things be law- full which they command. E may be bound by fomeother Obliga- tion perhaps,todo the thing which they command us, but we are not formally ( though fometime Materially) bound to obey them : For it is notformally- `'' obedience unlefs it be done eo nomine becaufecommanded,or for the Authority ofthe Commander.If thePope or anyufurper fhould commandme to pray or togive alms,I will do it,but not becaufe he commandethme,but becaufe God commandethme : and therefore I will not obey him but God : But if a Parent or Magifirate or Pallor command it me, I will do it both becaufe it is commanded me, by Godand them, and
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