( 465 ) where the Governours are againft their cuftoms, they will dice: bey themoh pretence ofduty toGod,and think that they do him fervice in it. §.5. Yea 5. They will be uncharitably cenforious againft their Brethren that are not of their mind, and look on them as men that are Pelf-conceited or irreligious, as thePapifls do by all that do no entertain every opinion which they anntimerate with the A°tic'es of their faith, and every practice which they piace their Religion in. 6. We fee all this by fad experience among our Pelves.' The impofers ofour Ceremonies and the maintainers of them, did í1i11 profefs that they were no parts but Accidents of worth p ; and they pleaded for them but as things indifferent. And let now the Magiflrare, and ihair lawlull. acknowledged Paftors, wouldbring the people in force of thefe Ceremonies to change their cufloms; they will not do it, inmany places, but make confcience (as they profefs) of Geffures,. and; forms and Dayes, and filch like, as if theyhad been ofDivineInílitution. If they be things Indifferent, why may not theydifufe an Holy day one year as they ale it another or difufe a form of Prayer oneday, as they ale it another, or recieve the Lords Supper one time fitting , as they do another time kneeling i But this they will not endure to yield to:fo that you fee that confiant uninter- ruptedale , hath made cuflome a Law with them , and given the Lie to the Doetrineof the Bifhops themfelves , that called them but indifferent things;. and caufed the people to place Gods worfhip in them. 7. And on the other fide a confiant purpofed difufe of convenient Modes and Circumfcances of worfhip, may draw people to think them things unlawfull, and to rife up against them as innovations , and lirange things, when they are im-. poled. g. 8. Yet here we muff diflinguifh of ind fferent things: Some are fo convenient, that we cannot frequently vary but with great inconveniency and wrong to the Church ( as a due hour for A ffembling, and a convenient place,and the beflTran- flations , and verfìons of the Pfalms the fictefl Ucenfìls for worfhip, &c. ) In all thefe cafes it were giddinefs to vary fre- quently andwithout need ; and yet worfe to tie men up from 0 o o varying
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