(4óz. ) hebell way, all Government then would be prefently over: thrown, and obedience denyed.We are Pure that God bath comp manded us to obey thcm that are over us in the Lord, (th'ef. 5. 12. Heb. 13. 7, t 7, &.c. ) And therefore a Certain duty may not be, forbornupon uncertain conjectures, or upon every mifcarriage in r.bem.that we owe it to. This would unchurch al Churches (as they are Political Societies) For if Paflors he taken down, and the work of Paflors, the Church is to ken down : And if Government andobedience be taken down,then Pallors and their work is takendown; Which will be the fruit of this diforder. §. 7. And the things in which the Pallor isnow fuppofed to err, are not of themfelves unlawful] ; but only by filch an accie deny, as being overweighed by another accident, (hall ceafe to make them unlawfull. For inflance: If the Pallor appoint a more imperfect verfion of the Pfalms to be Tung in the Church (as iscommonly done in England,) the obeying of him in the ufeof this, will not bring 4o much hurt to the Church as the difobeying on that account would do : For betides the fin of difobedience it felt, the Church would be in a confufion, if they forfake his conduct that preferves the union ; and forcewill be for this, and fotne for that, and fo the worfhip it felfwill be overthrown. But if the Pallor` would command a verfion fo corrupt as would overthrow the duty it felf,or be as bad as non-performance, the Church is then to leek redrefs, and not obey him. So if he command a Time inconvenient, but tolerable (as to meet at fun rilingor fun Petting) it were better obey then diffolve the Church (if we cannot be other- wife relieved) But if he appoint a Time chats intolerably unfit (as at midnight) I would not obey ( except in lush neceffity, as leaves to that time or none) the fame I fpoke before of other circumftances. §.8. On the other fide, if Magifirates or Paflors (hall think their Impofition lawful), becaufe the people may lawfully obey them,they areas much miflaken.1Jvenmany ofthofeDivines that wrotefor conformity to the late Ceremonies, did take it to be the fin of thofe that impofed them , as they were impofed , and would have written as much againft the Impofition , if they itad but had liberty : I miaa fuch writers as Mr. Sprint, Mr.
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